On Mar 21, 2016, at 3:17 AM, Klaas Van B. <klaasvanbe at yahoo.com> wrote: > >>> On 3/19/16, James K. Lowden <jklowden at schemamania.org> wrote: > >>> ... If the correctness of the code is >>> subject to change by the compiler's interpretation of the language, how >>> is the programmer to prevent it? > >> On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 15:50:43 -0400 Richard Hipp <drh at sqlite.org> wrote: > >> ... But subsequent revisions of the >> C-language standards changed that. How does one write code that will >> comply with language standards that keep changing out from under you? > > It's like trying to live according to the law while they're changing the > constitution.
This is a false dichotomy. Compilers allow you to choose your standard; --std=c11 means something very specific (and unchanging) about the behaviour you can expect to be defined.
