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Re: -std's (was Re: v3 link failures analyzed)

To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at codesourcery dot com>
Subject: Re: -std's (was Re: v3 link failures analyzed)
From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 19:51:20 -0800
Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101101935040.9635-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> <fl66jn401b.fsf@sel.cmla.ens-cachan.fr>

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:36:32PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> The matter isn't changing makefiles a decade.  It is about providing
> user-friendly and intuitive flags reflecting existing practices.  It
> is about providing a non-obscure flag reflecting the most stringent
> compliance to the most recent standard in use.

I completely agree with Joseph that asking for "the most recent standard"
is not a reasonable thing to ask for.  You should know what language you
are programming to.  I don't think -std=c99 is either too verbose nor too 
obscure.

r~

References:
- Re: -std's (was Re: v3 link failures analyzed)
  - From: Joseph S. Myers
- Re: -std's (was Re: v3 link failures analyzed)
  - From: Gabriel Dos Reis

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