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"Jeff P. Bailey" wrote:
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> I've only seen a small cross-section of what seems to be a long
> and acrimonious posting history between these two, but the picture
> from what I've seen is of jacob navia posting interesting articles
> likely to be of wide interest to new C programmers, while he is
> roundly condemned for this by everyone for being off-topic.
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> Mr Heathfield doesn't content himself with saying jacob's posts
> are off-topic, but also adds personal insults to the effect that
> jacob is incompetent at C. These accusations are quite implausible
> given that jacob has authored a successful C compiler, and I can't
> blame jacob for getting irritated by it.
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> Of course, as I said, I'm willing to believe that I haven't seen
> the whole picture in this.
You haven't. Topicality here is guided by the C standard. Things
specific to an installation are off-topic. Jacob has been advised
of this time and again, and insists on posting off-topic junk that
belongs in entirely different news-groups. In the process he often
demonstrates a sad non-familiarity with the C standard. This is
not good in someone attempting to build a C compiler.
For example, comp.compilers.lcc exists. Jacob occasionally posts
there, where he is not limited by topicality. However he prefers
to create the off-topic messes here.
Incidentally, stacks and linkers are installation specific. The
final action of a linker ONLY is mentioned in the C standard.
Stacks are not mentioned at all.
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