Anyone object to the following change in libc?
Garrett Wollman
wollman at khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Thu Oct 30 08:59:21 PST 2003
<<On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:32:46 +0100 (CET), Harti Brandt <brandt at 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 by the 108 ISO/IEC 9899: 1990 standard) has been replaced by a c99 utility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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