Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 20:42:07 -0500 From: "Mikhail Evstiounin" <evstiounin@adelphia.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Giving a sighandler more information Message-ID: <004401bf5fc2$e6e49f20$f8353018@evstiouninadelphia.net.pit.adelphia.net>
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-----Original Message----- From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Saturday, January 15, 2000 2:28 PM Subject: Re: Giving a sighandler more information >Mikhail Evstiounin <evstiounin@adelphia.net> wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > > From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> > >>No! A program which assumes that an int is large enough to > >>store a pointer is BROKEN. See this simple test program: > > > > Oliver, IT'S A REQUIRIMENTS OF THE STANDARD!!! - NOT MY WISH!!! > >I'm afraid you are wrong. The standard does NOT specify any >relation between the size of an int and the size of a pointer. >It never did, not even in old K&R days, and neither does C9x. >If you think otherwise, please quote from the standard. > >A program written in C (or claimed to be written in C) must >never assume that a pointer can fit in an int. Otherwise it >is just plain broken. > I don't have standard under my hand. What I have it's SB book for C++ and there is only "a plausible set of dundamental types" - not a requirement - p. 75. So, I am wrong, I guess. > > GCC team is very accurate - if they know that they have something > > incompatible > > with ANSI standard they always tell it - there is a whole document in > > distributuive > > that states what is different and why GCC team thinks it should be > > different. > >I hate to tell you this, but gcc is a good example of a >particularly bad implementation of the ANSI C standard, with >a particularly bad documentation. > >And no, not even with -ansi -pedantic it is ANSI C compatible. Nobody told you that - it just tighten it a little bit. > >Regards > Oliver > >-- >Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany >(Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) > >"In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" > (Terry Pratchett) > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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