Re: Why the C committee doesn't provide an implementation when the standard is published?

Chris Hills said:

In article <-qqdnSS5p-h2RhfZnZ2dnUVZ_qKdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, P.J. Plauger
<pjp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

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I remember a decade ago Tom Plum expressing frustration
that he couldn't get any of his customers to eliminate the last three to
five test failures when running their C compilers against his validation
suite. Each had damn good reasons -- usually involving backward
compatibility -- why they wouldn't close the gap completely.

I can understand that. It is a commercial world and there is not death
penalty for not using a conforming compiler.

We could fix that.

<g,d&r>

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