From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Russ Cox" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] C99 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010227131948.88CC8199F1@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:19:45 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6a603538-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Is there any plan to update ape/cc to be C99 compliant? Whoops. I misread this, thinking it said "way" not "plan". A slightly helpful answer: I printed the spec and got _very_ scared away. In my cynical view, it's not clear how much good it would do anyway. The even larger can of worms is the Single Unix spec. I doubt the number of exactly conforming C99/SUSV programs is much higher than the number of exactly conforming ANSI/POSIX programs currently in existence. A few weeks ago, I rewrote u9fs with the Single Unix spec in hand, so that it would just compile everywhere without any changes whatsoever. But it was not to be. As usual, vendors' implementations vary in subtle ways so that we're still not at "write once, compile & run anywhere" in any real sense. Russ