Re: basic-improvements merge status

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:47:31PM -0800, Matt Austern wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 03:39  PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> 
> > On the other hand, if you don't have a c99-compliant library,
> > I wonder if you should be using -std=c99 at all.
> 
> Should this be something we probe for during the
> configure step?  Unless you're building a cross
> compiler, we can test to see if real C99 compliance
> is possible.

v3 is trying to do this now, to the limited extent of "C99 library features
that can be useful in a C++98 library".  An opportunity for code reuse!


Phil

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