Fruits of X3J11 (was Re: quotes inside #if 0)

[Peter da Silva]

In article <14646 at bfmny0.UU.NET>, tneff at bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
> why not publish a portable Standard C compiler, written in K&R-1 C...
> ...efficiency would not be the goal -- leave that to the commercial vendors.

> It seems to me that questions ... [could be answerwed by]
> "whatever Standard C does"

Problem with this is that hotshot efficiency may require changing the semantics
from what the Standard C Compiler does, while remaining within X3J11. Using a
C compiler as the C standard was a bad idea when that compiler was K&R, and
is a bad idea today.
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