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OSNews@osnews@mstdn.social (2026-08-11 21:17:33)
An ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed

I found some ambiguous wording in the c89(/c90) standard, where GCC and Clang disagree on the interpretation. It concerns the behavior of implicit function declarations, which were removed in c99, so this was never disambiguated.
↫ Sebastian at sebsite

I am not going pretend to understand any of this.

https://www.osnews.com/story/145728/an-ambiguity-in-c89-which-will-never-be-fixed/

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