C99 spelling of "asm".

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, David O'Brien wrote:

> My read of the C99 standard is that "asm(...)" should be accepted by
> "gcc -std=c99 -pedantic":

Apart from the point already made that this is an informative, not 
normative, annex - it's C++98 that has a standard asm keyword, not C99 -

> Has GCC not caught up with iso9899:1999,

- there are various unimplemented or incompletely implemented parts of C99
(though not the standard keywords) and I am aware of no ongoing
implementation work apart from some work with unresolved design issues on
extended identifiers, UCNs and character set conversion.

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Joseph S. Myers
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