Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 11:56:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: quad_t and portability Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908091151530.62943-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <E11DoWM-000LLp-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>
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On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Tony Finch wrote:
> "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> >Is there anyone who is specifically checking for long long
> >C9X-compliancy in the source tree (mainly libc)?
>
> I started reviewing libc for C9X features in general -- a fair amount
> of work is required to update macros and typedefs in <inttypes.h>
> (plus the new <stdint.h>).
Shall we work on it, then?
>
> Doing a thorough job is difficult because C9X is somewhat gratuitously
> incompatible with gnu C (e.g. the spelling of __complex__, zero-length
> arrays in structures, macro varargs, etc.) and gnu C doesn't yet
> support restrict.
But GNU has officially stated that they will fully support C9X, and
they've started already. For instance, int *a = ((int [4]){1,2,3,4});
should work now, according to the infopages. Eventually, I'd be certain
that GNU would rather be compliant with C9X than with GNU C.
>
> Tony.
> --
> f.a.n.finch dot@dotat.at fanf@demon.net e pluribus unix
>
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