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 by the 108 ISO/IEC 9899: 1990 standard) has been replaced by a c99 utility 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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