On the C99 Status

[Paulo J. Matos]

>From http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.3/c99status.html , I see several
features are still missing from gcc to fully adhere to the C99
standard.

Those worth mentioning for me are complex support and variable length
arrays, still there are other either missing or broken. This is of
interest to me because I tend to try to follow standards so I usually
compile my programs with -std=c99.
Now, I wonder why after so many years of having a standard out, why
there's still some c99 features missing.
I can only imagine that there isn't too much incentive into
implementing the missing features. The other possibility is that gcc,
as a big software beast, is getting so big that adding completely new
features might be quite hard... anyway, this is just me thinking out
loud.
I would like to hear what the current issue is with adding the missing
features to gcc if anyone cares to explain.

Cheers,

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