GCC Steering Committee decision on ISO C conversion

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:

| On 13 Jun 2002, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| 
| > I know GCC/gcc insists on saying ISO C89, but that is incorrect and
| > I'll submit a patch to correct that anachronism.
| 
| So, you disagree with Phil's reasoning in
| http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-08/msg00132.html

Yes, I disagree with that reasoning: There were an ANSI C89 but no ISO C89.

| (the only response I got about choice of name in diagnostics that gave a
| preference between the two)?

Sorry, I missed that thread.

There seems to be some confusion.  I'm not sure it is a good thing to
keep it on.

There is an interesting summary in

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-06/msg00026.html

and associated followups.

-- Gaby