__STDC__ and non-conforming ANSI C compilers

[Liber]

In article <9075 at elsie.UUCP> ado at elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
|> In fact, its failure to say more will probably doom the plan to define
|> __STDC__ to 2 in future standards.  [Because many programs will write
|> #if __STDC__ == 1   and will break if it ever becomes 2.]

|#if __STDC__ >= 1

You don't really want to do this, since the future standard may not be
100% upward compatable with ANSI C 89.
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