Questions on X3J11 draft

[Doug Gwyn]

>> ... It allows almost ANYTHING to be called a conforming compiler ...

Henry Spencer provided a good response to this.  Another point,
though, is that the proposed standard is not as permissive as
has been presented.  Indeed, I know of no existing commercial
C compiler that qualifies as a "conforming ... implementation"
in the X3J11 sense.  All C vendors will have to change their
products, which is another reason why one wants to listen to
the vendors' ideas about what the standard should consist of.