Re: I need a new compiler...

In article <e0kdk4pq6b46660uq2b7shvoc7lrs3ljm4@xxxxxxx>,
Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:35:51 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx () wrote:

This is one of the dangers of using Wikipedia as a source: it is
frequently incorrect.

Correct or not, this is why sources are cited and URLS given.

Good reply.

Shucks, I'd blush... were I able to remember how.

A cited Wikipedia entry gives us a place to start. An
uncited entry is just rumor.

E'en more so, Mr Brazee... it give something *everyone* can look at and
read and comment and supply definitions and parsings and pickings of nits,
a Common Source, as it were. It may be only a Wikipaedia entry, true...
but it certainly is something other than 'Why, I used to work with
Ritchie, hisself, an' I recall he came a-stormin' inta work one day,
talkin' 'bout this dream he had where a snake took its tail into its mouth
and began rolling, started this whole new theory of the structure of
benzene... no, wait, maybe that was Kekule.'

It may well be that the ISO or IEEE or ANSI or whatever standard does not
require a version of C to have access to lower levels of memory... but if
all versions have capabilities for such access, and many advantages are
taken in many versions of such access... well, something about walking and
quacking like a duck comes to mind.

DD

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