__STDC__ and non-conforming ANSI C compilers

[Mike Coffin]

>From article <358 at masscomp.UUCP>, by ftw at masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods):
> If I invoke a conforming compiler with "cc -DFOO", but my program
> has #ifdef __STDC__ in it, how does this break conformance?

If "cc -DFOO" has the effect of providing of predefining FOO, then it
does not provide a conforming compilation environment: the program's
name space has been polluted.  So I assume that __STDC__ will not be
defined in such cases.  Do you think this should be an exception?  If
so, do you have any other exceptions in mind?
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