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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: else ladders practice
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:23:32 -0800
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
>
>> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 25/11/2024 16:27, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bart, can you explain the difference between a C compiler and a C
>>>> implementation?  Or do you believe they're the same thing?  (Hint:
>>>> They're not.)
>>>
>>> Well, I write language implementations, and I consider them largely
>>> the same thing.
>>>
>>> So who's right?
>>
>> In comp.lang.c, the C standard is right.
>
> Agreed, but the C standard doesn't define the word "compiler",
> and uses it only in non-normative text (I searched N3096).

That makes no difference to my point, which is about word
usage, not about what is or isn't C.  It is clear that the
C standard considers a compiler and an implementation to be
two different things.