Some Comments & Questions about ANSI C

[John Woods]

In article <13680 at haddock.ima.isc.com>, karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
I> In article <GEOFF.89Jun11231924 at onyx.cs.warwick.ac.uk> geoff at cs.warwick.ac.uk (Geoff Rimmer) writes:
 > >	One of these days, I'm going to write an ANSI C compiler.  And whenever
l> >	it encounters some code whose behavior is undefined (such as
i> >	fflush(stdin);) it will draw a picture of Snow White (tm) on the
k> >	screen, and then play Rule Brittania 3 times, before crashing with a
e> >	segmentation fault, and leaving a
 > >		while(1){fork();malloc(UINT_MAX);}
i> >	running in the background.
t>
.> Quality of Implementation issues are usually resolved by the free market.

Indeed they are.
Geoff, when you finish writing that compiler, I want TWO of them.
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