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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: do { quit; } else { }
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:44:49 -0700
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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:
>> [...]
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> The "ISO-ized" version of the Rationale is found here:
>>>
>>> https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n850.pdf
>> [...]
>>
>> N850 is an early version of the C9x (later C99) Rationale.
>> A later version is at
>>
>> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/C99RationaleV5.10.pdf
>
> But that n850 says that
>
>   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").
>
> 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.

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