basic-improvements merge status

[Fergus Henderson]

On 16-Dec-2002, Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> 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?

Yes -- but only if the `-ffreestanding' option is specified.

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