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Re: gnu c reference manual : c dialects
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: Trevis Rothwell <tjr at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, gerald at pfeifer dot com
- Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 18:31:10 -0700
- Subject: Re: gnu c reference manual : c dialects
- References: <E1IU8mo-0004Dd-5x@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 06:28:18PM -0400, Trevis Rothwell wrote:
> Would it be useful to delineate not only between ISO C features and GNU
> C extensions, but also to delineate between the C89 and C99 standards?
> In my day job, we, for rather unusual reasons, are using a very old
> version of GCC that does not support C99, so for my group it would be
> useful -- but I suspect that we are the exception rather than the rule.
Since gcc does have an option to run in C89 mode, the users need to
know what this means (that is, what features are disabled).