Fruits of X3J11 (was Re: quotes inside #if 0)
Tom Neff
tneff at bfmny0.UU.NET
Sun Sep 10 14:35:29 AEST 1989
Rather than rely on bureaucratic interpretation of a lengthy spec, why
not publish a portable Standard C compiler, written in K&R-1 C, which
exhibits the characteristics of a conforming compiler and is suitably
commented with references to the spec? The code generated could be
pseudocode or a suite of hardware specific generators could be assembled
as people have time to write them. Hotshot efficiency would not be
the goal -- leave that to the commercial vendors.
It seems to me that questions of "what do you do if X follows Y under
condition Z" would be a lot easier to deal with if the answer were
"whatever Standard C does" rather than "well what we MEANT to say in
paragraph 1.37.6 was..."
I suppose a meeting of the minds with Stallman on this is beyond hope...
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