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Re: Changes to gcc.c (display_help)
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Changes to gcc.c (display_help)
- From: Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:59:19 -0400
- Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>, meissner at cygnus dot com, pthomas at suse dot de, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006272138330.54906-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <5828.962235254@upchuck>
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 05:34:14PM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006272138330.54906-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
> you write:
> > On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> > > + if (pedantic && nchars > 508)
> > > + pedwarn ("string length %d is greater than ANSI C maximum 508", ncha
> > rs);
> >
> > I believe we ought to refer to ISO C.
> It may be the case that we need to refer to both. We have both ANSI and ISO
> modes, and their required behavior may be different (I have no idea about this
> specific case, I'm talking about generalities).
As of December 1990, there is no such thing as an independent ANSI C standard
(1989 was when the ANSI C standard was published, 1990 was when the ISC C
standard was published, and the ANSI C standard was withdrawn in favor of the
ISO C standard). Using ANSI is merely a historical oddity at this point.
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