[Cryptech Tech] C standard

Rob Austein sra at hactrn.net
Fri Jun 5 17:07:43 UTC 2015


At Fri, 5 Jun 2015 18:40:54 +0200, Daniel Cegie?ka wrote:
> 
> C99 is not set as the default in gcc. Next version of gcc (and clang)
> will support the C11 by default.

C99 might be a bit less of a stretch, as some compiler vendors (hi,
Microsoft) take a decade or more to support anything new.

GCC and Clang both support the "-std=c99" command line option, so not
being enabled by default isn't a problem per se.

At Fri, 05 Jun 2015 09:52:06 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> do the compilers which target the various m4 kernels we are considering
> support 99 and 11?

GCC, I think, so, yes.


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