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Re: proposed Opengroup action for c99 command (XCU ERN 76)
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>
- To: rridge at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca (Ross Ridge)
- Cc: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 14 Sep 2005 15:53:26 -0700
- Subject: Re: proposed Opengroup action for c99 command (XCU ERN 76)
- References: <20050914223940.93600A8547@perpugilliam.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) writes:
> Ross Ridge wrote:
> > GCC doesn't use (A), (B) or (C). GCC doesn't conform to C99 and
> > any implementation of "c99" that uses GCC would presumably also be
> > non-conforming.
>
> Robert Dewar wrote:
> > What exactly is the observable non-conformance?
>
> GCC doesn't claim C99 conformance. The following URL lists a number of
> different areas in which GCC is known not to conform:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html
How does the fact that gcc does not currently conform to C99 imply
that gcc doesn't use (A), (B), or (C)?
In any case, the general goal is to conform to C99, so it still makes
sense to discuss this.
Ian