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Date:      Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:51:01 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: -isoC (was: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdio printf.3)
Message-ID:  <20010614125101.C76663@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106141837370.74348-100000@besplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 06:55:36PM %2B1000
References:  <20010614094304.D50901@sunbay.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106141837370.74348-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 06:55:36PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > Here's the list of C standards in mdoc(7):
> > 
> > :    ANSI/ISO C
> > :
> > :          -ansiC         ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C'')
> > :          -ansiC-89      ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C'')
> > :          -isoC          ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (``ISO C89'')
> > :          -isoC-99       ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (``ISO C99'')
> 
> I think this is POSIX-speak (except for X3.159-1989 of course).
> "ISO C89" makes no sense for a 1990 standard.

*sigh* we all know that the 1999 ISO standard is identical to the 1989
ANSI standard (minus the Rationale and a renumbering).  What most people
want to call ISO/C90 should really be ISO/C94 (or when ever the last
addendum to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 was ratified).

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