You cannot check ANSI compliance

Anthony Scian afscian at violet.waterloo.edu
Tue Aug 22 11:14:23 AEST 1989


One facet of the proposed ANSI standard that is difficult
to verify is re-entrant functions. The proposed ANSI standard
requires that all functions have the possibility of being
re-entrant. This means that the calling convention
must be re-entrant. This applies to functions of any return types.

The various ANSI C compliance test suites cannot check for this
in a deterministic manner.

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