Public Comment Number PC-UK0166 ISO/IEC CD 9899 (SC22N2620) Public Comment =========================================== Date: 1998-02-25 Author: N.M Maclaren Author Affiliation: Self Postal Address: University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB3 3QG, United Kingdom E-mail Address: Telephone Number: +44 1223 334761 Fax Number: +44 1223 334679 Number of individual comments: 1 Comment 1. Category: Normative change to existing feature retaining the original intent Committee Draft subsection: 5.1.1.3 Title: Indication of failure Detailed description: The C standard does not make any requirement on an implementation to distinguish success from failure during compilation, which causes a lot of trouble with Unix 'make' and similar utilities. It would be possible to require it to indicate failure in the cases when that is possible and it produces at least one required diagnostic. But is this a good idea? If it can be done without causing major trouble, then I think that it should be done. I have not included any text, as I am not convinced whether this is feasible (practically and politically.)