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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: else ladders practice
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:32:01 -0800
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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).

What I consider to be a "compiler" is the program or programs that
implement translation phases 1 through 7.  (The 8th and final phase
is linking.)

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