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   Tristan Wibberley to Tristan Wibberley   
   Re: Semantic properties of finite string   
   01 Nov 25 22:16:01   
   
   From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk   
      
   On 01/11/2025 21:39, Tristan Wibberley wrote:   
   > Follow-up set comp.lang.c   
   >   
   > On 01/11/2025 02:45, Richard Damon wrote:   
   >   
   >> .. [stuff I think is about the invalidity of not completing execution]   
   isn't a valid definition ...   
   >   
   > Let's suppose C disallows abort due to external events... Then no   
   > conforming C implementation exists.   
   >   
   > I think we must suppose that susceptibility to power-cuts do not render   
   > C implementations non-conforming.   
   >   
   > That means a C implementation must only execute a program without   
   > issuing a diagnostic if it has undefined behaviour sufficiently early in   
   > its execution that any abort due to a power-cut, for instance, is permitted.   
      
   ugh, late at night, my ability to put two sentences together has   
   diminished. sorry.   
      
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