Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 23:22:11 +0100 From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Churanov <alexanderchuranov@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler? Message-ID: <20090109222211.GA33145@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3cb459ed0901091412o5861ec59web9b48d264ca053b@mail.gmail.com> References: <49668763.8020705@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20090108233311.GA69883@keltia.freenix.fr> <20090109031147.GB44317@duncan.reilly.home> <49672189.5060109@gmx.de> <20090109110508.GA12123@freebsd.org> <496751D1.20605@gmx.de> <20090109134725.GA38233@freebsd.org> <49675F04.20006@gmx.de> <3cb459ed0901091412o5861ec59web9b48d264ca053b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:12:57AM +0300, Alexander Churanov wrote: > Folks, > > The '-std=c99'' only instructs GCC to allow the whole of C99. This is > clearly not enough, because this mode allows too many GCC extensions. If you > compile your code in "default' mode or just specify '-std=c99', then it's > very likely that you will eventually get stuck to GCC. Using this approach > you are reducing chances to switch to another C99 compiler. > > Though I am not aware of any other open source compiler supporting C99, I > beleive that there is great need for it. This discussion indicates that > there is real necessity for BSD-licensed C99 compiler. clang (clang.llvm.org) supports almost everything now and aims for full C99 support. pcc aims for full C99 too I believe Chris Mallon can comment better but I believe cparser is C99 too am I missing something?
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