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Re: [DOC] clearer description of -std= (try 2)
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> In your patch you mention that gnu89 is the default now but gnu99 will
> become the default eventually. Will -ansi then switch to mean c99?
> If this has been decided already, might as well present it that way,
> or at least give the reader hope that it might happen. So I suggest
> adding a sentence up front:
-ansi refers to fixed versions (c89 and c++98), not to a version that
should change in future, so it is not affected by changes in the compiler
default standard.
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