Re: do { quit; } else { }

Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:

On 2025-04-10, Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:

Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
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Where the rules came from is partially answered by the Rationale
for ANSI C, where it discusses the various linkage models for external
names that were in the wild.
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The "ISO-ized" version of the Rationale is found here:
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https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n850.pdf

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N850 is an early version of the C9x (later C99) Rationale.
A later version is at
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http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/C99RationaleV5.10.pdf

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But that n850 says that
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  This Rationale summarizes the deliberations of NCITS J11 (formerly
  X3J11) and SC22 WG14, 5 respectively the ANSI Technical Committee and
  ISO/IEC JTC 1 Working Group, charged with revising the International
  Standard for the C programming language; and it retains much of the
  text of the Rationale for the original ANSI Standard (ANSI
  X3.159-1989, the so-called "C89").
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It has the ANSI Rationale content; it has served my purpose here,
since it has all the same material about linkage of identifiers.

I don't dispute the usefulness of N850 for the purpose of the point you
were making.  I was just pointing that it's not the rationale for
C89/C90, and that anyone who wants to see the C99 Rationale should
probably use a later version.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */