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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:59:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Anyone object to the following change in libc?
Message-ID:  <200310301659.h9UGxAPk023337@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20031030120925.K80335@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>
References:  <BAEB9CED-091F-11D8-B483-000393BB9222@queasyweasel.com> <3F9F4FE6.29C4E178@mindspring.com> <3FA0EEFD.431DD759@mindspring.com> <20031030120925.K80335@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>

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<<On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:32:46 +0100 (CET), Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> said:

> "The c89 utility (which specified a compiler for the C Language specified
> by the 108 ISO/IEC 9899: 1990 standard) has been replaced by a c99 utility
> (which specifies a compiler for 109 the C Language specified by the
> ISO/IEC 9899: 1999 standard)."

More specifically: IEEE Std. 1003.1-2001 is aligned to ISO/IEC
9899:1999 in all respects.  C99 alignment was one of the principal
reasons for bringing out a whole new standard in the first place,
rather than continuing the amendment process.  (This is also why POSIX
now requires eight-bit bytes.)

-GAWollman



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