Re: subroutine stack and C machine model

Flash Gordon <smap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

There's a group by the name of alt.usage.english for when you want ti
discus what the work "clear" means,

and you can find me there

but you have been discussing it
here. You can reasonably argue the discussing whether Schildt's book
are correct or not is topical (although trying to do so with Nilges is
obviously pointless), but I can't see how you can argue that
discussing the meaning of words not defined by the C standard is
topical when you can simply re-word your claim about Schilt's books to
avoid the word in question.

So argue with Nilges about C if you must, but not about philosophy or
the English language.

The problem with that is that he is using his version of English to
argue about C in, and confusing us all in the process. It's not really
possible to use the C Standard as a vocabulary for discussing C in.

If I insist that the results of the "sinf" function are wrong, because I
use wrong to mean "not correct to precisely 372 significant figures",
you're going to find it difficult to discuss the issue with me without
going into the fact that I'm using "wrong" in a different way to
everybody else on the planet.
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