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Re: Is Gnulib still targeting C89?
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Tim Rice |
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Re: Is Gnulib still targeting C89? |
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Thu, 27 Apr 2017 07:34:17 -0700 (PDT) |
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Hi Paul,
On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Tim Rice wrote:
> > Sad to hear gnulib doesn't care about C89. UnixWare (a currently shipping
> > product) has a C89 compiler.
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> That should be OK as UnixWare's supplier also supports GCC, and recommends GCC
> for compiling Gnu-style applications.
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> http://osr507doc.xinuos.com/en/DevSysoview/Ccompil.html#Ccompil_GNUdevtools
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> Plus, the native UnixWare compiler supports many C99 features, so it may work
> with even the parts of Gnulib that use some C99 now.
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> http://osr507doc.xinuos.com/en/DevSysoview/Ccompil.html#Ccompil_OSR5devsys
You are quoting the OpenServer 5 documentation (different compiler) but
digging deeper into the UnixWare web docs I see it supports most of C99 too.
Sorry for the noise.
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