From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MIME_HTML_ONLY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 15586 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2023 21:34:52 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 14 Mar 2023 21:34:52 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F221D4129B; Wed, 15 Mar 2023 07:34:47 +1000 (AEST) Received: from firemail.de (firemail.de [88.99.137.45]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA7E741296 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2023 07:34:34 +1000 (AEST) Received: from firemail.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by firemail.de (b1gMailServer) with ESMTP id 6339BBB0 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:34:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:34:32 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: X-Mailer: b1gMail/7.4.0 X-Sender-IP: 217.232.10.163 From: "Thomas Paulsen" To: "John Cowan" In-Reply-To: References: <10C77771-5232-4DBB-8685-ADC38C5E8350@iitbombay.org> <20230314100452.778DB21FF5@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Abuse-Report: abuse@emailn.de Message-ID-Hash: UQYASWA6ZD3MOZUB6AUDOXKRSTATKIJ4 X-Message-ID-Hash: UQYASWA6ZD3MOZUB6AUDOXKRSTATKIJ4 X-MailFrom: thomas.paulsen@firemail.de X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Thomas Paulsen Subject: [TUHS] Re: C dialects List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe:  <= /span>

Von: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Datum: 14.0= 3.2023 21:02:44
An: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplu= s.co.uk>
Betreff: [TUHS] Re: C dialects

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On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 6:05=E2=80=AFAM Ralph Co= rderoy <ralph@inputp= lus.co.uk> wrote:
 
Let the compiler squeeze all it can= out of the letter of the standard.
Let the programmer have the compil= er abide by the spirit of the language.
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Right. = And what is the spirit of C?  I contend that it is this: "Conformant = code flies faster than the lightning, and non-conformant code makes demons = fly out of your nose, because if you have code that exhibits any of the 193= (or whatever) C99 undefined behaviors plus however many later standards ha= ve added, IT'S YOUR FAULT."

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