gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?

[Alexander Churanov]

2009/1/10 Roman Divacky <rdivacky at freebsd.org>

> ie. no strong need for -pedantic as far as I can tell :)
>
> honestly... we need some of the gnu99 features and it's only a good thing
> that
> the alternative compilers support that, I also have a gut feeling that (as
> it
> was in the past) some of the gnu99 things might appear in the next C
> standard
>
> Well, since standards aim to document existing practice and not to invent
things, your assumption sounds very reasonable. However, adoption of gcc
extensions means that behavior of gcc is de-facto standard, more respected
than ISO, for a group of developers.
Sincerely,
Alexander Churanov