Re: working with addresses

From: Richard Heathfield (dontmail_at_address.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 01/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 06:02:42 +0000 (UTC)

pcrAKAJumbo wrote:

> LOL no its not like that at all. They were saying that because they ISO
> docs state that this or that should happen then you as a general punter
> are guaranteed that this or that will happen. This is almost true if every
> time they were to make this statement they made it in full i.e: You are
> guaranteed that this will happen if you're compiler is 100% standard
> compliant.

If your compiler is not 100% standard compliant, it is not a C (or, as the
case may be, C++) compiler, and therefore it's off-topic here. Since we
don't post off-topic material, you may take it as read that we are
discussing 100% conforming compilers when we talk of "guarantees".

Here, we discuss the language, which ISO defines. Therefore, it is
meaningful to discuss the "guarantees" which we find in that definition. If
your compiler doesn't honour those "guarantees", that's your compiler's
problem, not the language's problem. If the compiler claims standards
conformance but doesn't provide it, you may have commercial or legal
recourse. 

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