Re: C99 features

[Scott Robert Ladd <coyote at coyotegulch dot com>]

Shaun Jackman wrote:
> Is there a short paragraph summary of each of the features listed in:
> 	http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3/c99status.html
>
> I don't have access to the standard, but I'd sure like to know a little
> more about each of these.

Do you want to know more about C99 (as in "What does 'complex support' 
mean?"), or are you wanting to know more detail about GCC's 
implementation of C99 (as in "How is compelx support broken in GCC?").

The ISO/ANSI C99 Standard can be purchased for US$33 from the ANSI 
bookstore, in PDF format.

http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/product.asp?sku=ISO%2FIEC+9899%3A1999

The GCC C99 status page is a tad confusing. For example, "complex (and 
imaginary) support in <complex.h>" is "Broken", but it's not listed as a 
"library issue." Given that C99's complex.h is part of glibc, not gcc, 
I'm assuming this is an oversight in the status, or perhaps that the 
header can not be implemented base don the compiler's current state. The 
same problem exists with "extended integer types in <stdint.h>".

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