Deep question for the REAL C GURU's out there ...

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 20:29 -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:

> True, I suppose, but, as a minor point, precedence and sequence
> points are determined by the standard. Any compiler worth the name
> should get that right.

We have been burned by C compilers from TI (DSP programming) and
Microware (embedded OS/9). In the latter, the C compilers originally
were explicitly not ANSI compliant. That was OK as it was what it was.
The problem was the first few releases as the complier claimed ANSI
compatibility. Let's just say those were interesting times. And one
reason we have moved from OS/9 to Gentoo Linux in these systems. We are
now sorting out a few responsiveness issues, with serious plans to add
RTAI (www.rtai.org) to Gentoo.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se>