Compiler Error Checking and Error Messages - How much is too much?

[M.J.Shannon]

A comment, if I may: Up until now, C has been an evolving language.  With the
upcoming standardization of the language by a recognized body (ANSI), compiler
writers are less free to impose super-strict interpretation of the intent of
the language *unless such is permitted or required by the standard*.  This is
a *good thing*.  It precludes exactly what you're complaining about (except in
the case of a machine which does not yet have a conforming compiler).  I
haven't thought much on what this means to folks writing code to be super
portable (i.e., to both ANSI conforming compilers and to older compilers), but
I believe there's a suitable common subset that is useable for this purpose.

Perhaps discussion of this subset is a good topic for this group?
-- 
	Marty Shannon
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