basic-improvements merge status

[Dale Johannesen]

On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 03:56  PM, Jan Hubicka wrote:

>>
>> On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 02:44  PM, Jan Hubicka wrote:
>>> On C99 and C++ it is always valid as runtime is required to have it
>>> (and
>>> thats why libstdc++ does it).
>>
>> According to the C99 standard, this is right, but GCC does not control
>> the
>> runtime libraries.  What should the behavior of -std=c99 be, when
>> generating code
>> for a target with non-C99-conformant libraries?
>
> I don't know.  It is interesting combination at least (like C without
> runtime).

"C without runtime" is known as "freestanding" in the standard, and
is actually well defined.  Is this something we want to support though?