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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:57:13 -0500
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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On Jan 23, 2008, at 11:13 AM, ron minnich wrote:
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> One of the first questions users ask of a new C compiler is "are you
> gcc compliant?".
>
>
Nine out of ten times you'll hear "yes" but get "no" from the  
program. To be GCC compatible is to be a masochist. What people  
should be asking is, "is the compiler C99-compliant?" Personally, I  
see no need for most of the junk in C99 - its complex number system  
is unorthodox, it breaks compatibility with C++, and isn't restrict  
like noalias?