Re: Enhancement needed (was strange record size ?)

[john@assen.demon.co.uk.nospam (John McCabe)]

Michael Pickett <MPickett@norvu.demon.co.uk> wrote:

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>...Robert may have misunderstood my intentions...

Given my experience of Robert's interpretations, I think that your
hypothesis is likely to be entirely correct!

>* Implementation Advice is a useful mechanism for persuading an
>implementor to adopt (or avoid) a particular approach where it would be
>inappropriate to introduce a normative clause. (Unfortunately, the
>Standard does not provide any background on what qualifies a clause to
>be a recommendation rather than a requirement.)

I may be missing the point here, but I believe IA are guidelines as to
the way a compiler would be expected to do things, but none of these
are requirements. The RM however does identify Implementation
Requirements sections.


Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>