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   Rod Pemberton to Scott Lurndal   
   Re: subc   
   05 Feb 22 02:03:43   
   
   From: noemail@basdxcqvbe.com   
      
   On Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:54:49 GMT   
   scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:   
      
   > Rod Pemberton  writes:   
   > >On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 20:31:21 -0800 (PST)   
   > >"muta...@gmail.com"  wrote:   
      
   >> Specifically, I'd like a C-to-C compiler.  The compiler   
   >> would take modern C99 or C11 etc and output the code as   
   >> C89 or maybe even K&R C.  Ideally, a valid subset of C   
   >> for C89 would be even better.   
   >   
   > Why on earth would you want this?   
      
   Why on earth did you stop reading at that point? ...   
   In the middle of the last paragraph:   
      
   RP> [...]   
   RP> Then, you could "dumb-ify" any piece   
   RP> of C code, so that it would bootstrap   
   RP> and compile with any old simple C compiler.   
   RP> [...]   
      
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