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Re: Bug#196800: flex mustn't assume stdint.h is available onallplatforms



On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:59:37 +0800, Cameron Patrick <cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au> said: 

> On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:05:22AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> That is a given for any program that generates C code, and always
>> has been: No representations can be made about C code when compiled
>> on a non-conrming platform, the behavious is always undefined.

> Yes, but when the program changes from generating code which
> conforms to both the C90 (?) /and/ C99 standards to generating code
> which conforms to C99 but /doesn't/ conform to the earlier standard,
> /and/ compilers which conform to the latter standard are by no means
> ubiquitous, surely this change is worthy of being being mentioned
> somewhere prominent?

	Hmm. You may have a point. 

	manoj
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