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Re: AC_PROG_CC_C99 macro description is too vague / ambiguous


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: AC_PROG_CC_C99 macro description is too vague / ambiguous
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:12:50 -0600
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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/21/2009 3:04 PM:
>> It is not clear whether GNU extensions are allowed or not. Even though
>> one may think that it is natural to keep the GNU extensions, gcc has
>> -std=c99 for strict ISO C99 (as opposed to gnu99 for the GNU dialect),
>> so that one can easily mix up "C99 mode" above and "c99 language" from
>> gcc. The macro description should avoid this possible confusion.
> 
> OK?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ralf
> 
>     Improve description of AC_PROG_CC_C89 and AC_PROG_CC_C99.
>     
>     * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Document that AC_PROG_CC_C89
>     and AC_PROG_CC_C99 prefer extended over strict conformance modes.
>     Report by Vincent Lefevre.

Okay, except spell Vincent's surname correctly (Lefèvre) in ChangeLog and
your commit message, since both of those support UTF-8.

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