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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Rep-spec question
Date: 1999/11/11
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In article <80djt4$4jt$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <80cqb7$if9$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> > At the risk of opening the "implementation advice" can of
> > worms again,
> > the size clause above is not required to be accepted by an
> > implementation. But if your vendor follows the recomendation
> in the
> > implementaion advice (which most should), then it will
> compile. The
> > implementation advice in question (from 13.3) is:
>
> Ted, please get this right in future :-) We just got through

Say it enough and I might get it. :-)

But an even stronger statement than you made, such as "this works on all
known compilers", is not the same as "this is guaranteed to work on all
compilers". It is not.

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T.E.D.


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