Re: C89

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:22:02 -0700, Bill Coffman <bill.coffman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the info...
> 
> Apparently,
> 
>    gcc -ansi -pedantic
> 
> is supposed to be ANSI C '89.  Equiv to -std=c89.  Also, my
> Configure.pl generated make file uses neither -ansi nor -pedantic.  I
> do have access to a K&R C v2, but it doesn't look like it's going to
> match the actual practice.  Oh well.  So long, as my code works, I'm
> happy.
> 
> Incidentally, I tried adding -ansi and -pedantic and I got lots of
> warnings, like "long long" not supported by ANSI C'89, etc. (how can
> you do 64 bit ints then?).  I also got errors that caused outright
> failure.  Perhaps it's best to forget the whole C'89 thing.  But maybe
> someone should remove that from the documentation?  Just a thought.

I thought long long was only defined in C99, not C89?

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bd