Mark Williams C
Dik T. Winter
dik at cwi.nl
Fri Jun 9 06:51:15 AEST 1989
In article <10378 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <10334 at socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> diamond at csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond) writes:
> >Your code will break in newer versions [of standard-conforming C
> >compilers] anyway.
>
> Standard-conforming code is not expected to be rendered non-conforming
> in the next revision of the C Standard. Any area where there was some
> sentiment that it might was flagged as an "obsolescent feature" in the
> current Standard, which should serve as sufficient warning to people
> to avoid relying on their long-term stability.
Harumph. Yeah, we know about obsolescent features. See Fortran.
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