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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