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- Top ten things overheard at the ANSI C draft committee meetings:
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- 10. Sorry, but that's too useful.
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- 9. But little-endian systems *are* more consistent!
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- 8. I'm on the committee and I *still* don't know what the hell
- #pragma is for.
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- 7. Well, it's an excellent idea, but it would make the compilers
- too hard to write.
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- 6. Them bats is smart: they use radar.
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- 5. All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in
- here?
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- 4. How many times do we have to tell you, "No prior art!".
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- 3. Ha, ha, they're actually going to adopt this sucker.
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- 2. Than you for your generous donation, Mr Wirth.
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- 1. Gee, I wish we hadn't backed down on 'noalias'.
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- From Barry Margolin
-