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

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> writes:

| On 10-Jan-2001, Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
| > 
| > As for the name: -std exists to provide some regularity to names in this
| > area, and another -std name is better than another irregular option -iso
| > to add to the existing irregular -ansi, -pedantic and -traditional.
| 
| OK, you've convinced me that `-iso' is not a good idea.
| But the `-ansi' option should be documented as deprecated.

Agreed.

| I like Mike Stump's suggestion of using plain `-std'
| to mean the most recent properly supported ISO standard.

So it seems we're in complete agreement.

-- Gaby
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