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

[Richard Henderson]

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~