[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Allow compilers to reject obvious violations

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Mon Feb 26 13:30:56 2007

William D Clinger scripsit:

> The following message suggests that conforming
> implementations could offer a special non-conforming
> mode in which they have unlimited discretion to reject
> programs before running them:

It is perhaps worth pointing out that a standard can have nothing to
say about applications (or modes of applications) that don't claim
conformance. To make gcc a conformant C compiler, you must say
"gcc -ansi -pedantic -trigraphs", I believe.

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