ISO C90 Compiler Where to get it from ?

[sonatabar bar]

Hi Brian,

Thank you for your clarification. I agree I
misunderstood the description on the GCC webstite. 

But now I know :-), it is a great sense of relief
after my google-fu failed me in finding the ghost
compiler.

Thanks!,
Sonatabar

--- Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net> wrote:

> sonatabar bar wrote:
> 
> > On CentOS 5(i386) i can install gcc using it
> > add/remove   package utility. But for some reason
> it
> > only puts gcc,g++ but no g77.
> 
> That's because g77 no longer exists in gcc 4.x.  The
> new front end is
> called gfortran and I'm positive your distro has a
> package of it.
> 
> > So I removed it. I believe I can use the that
> version
> > of the gcc and compile the latest version, but I
> > really want to try installing from Zero.
> Especially
> > from ISO C90.
> > 
> > It is strange that no one really talks about where
> to
> > get that(ISO C90) from ....rather everyone points
> to
> > using the distribution installed tools. Is the ISO
> C90
> > a secrete community ?? :-) Or is it so tedious
> that on
> > would rather not talk about it. Just a thought.
> 
> I think you're misunderstanding.  "ISO C90" is an
> adjective not a noun. 
> There is no such thing as "the ISO C90" compiler,
> only "a compiler that
> is capable of compiling ISO C90 code."  gcc is such
> a compiler, and so
> installing gcc through your distro's packages and
> then using that to
> build another version of gcc is what the
> instructions are saying you
> must do.  If you want to use another C compiler such
> as Intel's icc that
> is also possible, but being non-free software it's
> much easier just to
> install gcc.
> 
> Brian
> 





       
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