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Subject: Re: standard pragma's II
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:37:41 -0400
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On 10/28/2010 04:21 PM, Marcin Grzegorczyk wrote:
> John Smith wrote:
>> This is where I am. Otherwise I'm to believe that my quest to find out
>> why C shit its pants with floating point is that it didn't happen.
>
> This could be because compiler and library implementers tend to avoid
> solutions that would gratuitously break existing programs. There's
> hardly any point in implementing a DeathStation 9000, even though the
> Standard does not disallow that.
>
> This kind of attitude seriously reduces the damage that ambiguities in
> the Standard can cause.

Still, it would be helpful if someone could identify ambiguities in the 
standard serious enough to justify the scatological metaphor - at a 
minimum, something at least an order of magnitude more problematic than 
the minor issues Nick Maclaren brought up.