c89 broken on head?

[David Chisnall]

On 7 Mar 2013, at 19:28, Dimitry Andric <dim at freebsd.org> wrote:

>> Also, I seem to remember a discussion about making -std=gnu89 the default
>> for clang when run as "cc", but nothing seems to have changed. Could this
>> be picked up again, because there are in fact subtle semantic differences
>> between gnu89 inline and c99 inline that old code may rely on.

cc was deprecated in POSIX1997.  I would be more in favour of removing it entirely than of making it default to anything other than C11.

I do have a patch for clang that makes it select a more sensible default dialect when invoked as gcc, c89, c99, or c11.  I'll try to push this upstream soon.

David