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Re: C99 support


From: Bob Friesenhahn
Subject: Re: C99 support
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:49:30 -0600 (CST)

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Roger Leigh wrote:

It would be great if in the next year, AC_PROG_CC could default to
using a C99 compiler.  Since it should be backward-compatible with C89
(??), this shouldn't be required, but I would really like to see C99
as the default, with some means of choosing an older standard if so
required.

Do you have a purpose for using C99 other than to intentionally write non-portable software?

Is C99 really 100% upward compatible with the previous version of the standard, or is it possibly more strict and include type changes which might impact library ABIs?

Bob
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