Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 00:49:18 08/21/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 23:16:03, Russell Reagan wrote: [snip] >The levels of truth: > >3. What you read in a book Not if it's in a book which _defines_ what ANSI-C is. Definitions can't be wrong. That can be useless probably, but not wrong. >and the highest level of truth is... > >1. What the thing does when you run it I would have put that almost at the other end of the scale, at least when it concerns programming in C. A program which compiles w/o errors and links, _always_ does _something_ specific, under this platform, at that day, at that time, with this memory layout, etc. There are many (?) things, which are either implementation-defined or undefined at all in ANSI-C. The "highest level of truth" won't catch these. (of course, most people couldn't care less whether the stuff runs on the neighbours CPU as well, but that's another issue) Sargon
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