basic-improvements merge status

[Matt Austern]

On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 03:39  PM, Richard Henderson wrote:

> On the other hand, if you don't have a c99-compliant library,
> I wonder if you should be using -std=c99 at all.

Should this be something we probe for during the
configure step?  Unless you're building a cross
compiler, we can test to see if real C99 compliance
is possible.

(And then the next question: is a hybrid, with the
C99 core language and the C90 library, interesting?
If so, what should we call it?)

			--Matt