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From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: quad_t and portability
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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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