Re: The C Programming Language: Third Edition

On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:32:21 +0000, in comp.lang.c , Richard
Heathfield <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mark McIntyre said:

On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:12:24 GMT, in comp.lang.c , Keith Thompson
<kst-u@xxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

Richard uses gcc

I assume you're a mind-reader.

No, he just has a good memory.

He's stating stuff about how you work which only you can state with
certainty, and IMHO he can't use it as a basis for an argument.

No, he's not suggesting any such thing; he is merely reporting what actually
happens.

and then say that it doesn't conform to C99. Come now.

Mark, he's /right/. Please don't call him silly for being right.

I called him silly for being irrelevant.

I invoke
the compiler in C90 conforming mode for portability reasons. Note that, on
the implementation I use, there *isn't* a C99-conforming mode.

Absolutely. You *deliberately* invoke it in a non-conforming way and
*gasp* it doesn't conform.

Frankly thats a silly point to raise when claiming the compiler
doesn't support a feature. You could as well say it doesn't support
Fortran77 or Algol syntax. Of /course/ it doesn't, if you don't invoke
it with the right flags.

So you're silly, Keith is silly and I'm silly for continuing this
childish debate.
<EOT>
--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan
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