Hi,
>>"Kai" == Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kai> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 11.04.98 in
Kai> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Look at the whole sentence, please. There are indeed no
>> requirements for the program to behave in any fashion; as long as
>> the
Kai> No. There are no requirements, period. Look at the sentence
Kai> yourself.
Permissible undefined behaviour ranges from ignoring the
situation completely with unpredictable results, to behaving
during translation or program execution in a documented manner
charecteristic of the environment (with or without the
issuance of a diagnostic message), to terminating a
translation or execution (with the issuance of a diagnostic
message).
Seems like a requirement to me, or else it is not permitted
undefined behaviour. Tell me how fclose in Debian does not volate
this from 1.6 of the standard (IEEE versioning).
>> I know fashionable, but incorrect, comments on comp.lang.c would
>> have it otherwise.
Kai> It is interesting to note that *all* members of the committee
Kai> that wrote this standard that have ever spoken up on comp.std.c,
Kai> have agreed with these "fashinable comments".
I do not care. Even technically competent people make mistakes
while expressing personal opinion. I am looking, instead of
comp.lang.c, to the IEEE/ISO/IEC standard. I still submit the
standard is a better authority thatn the USENET. (You must admit the
comments about monkeys, first made by Chris Torek, was made under
frustation and extreme provocation; and was meant more to drive the
lesson home that to be an interpretation of the standard).
manoj
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