AVR-Chat

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:51:07AM -0400, Brian Dean wrote:

"On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:30:45AM +0100, Colin Paul Gloster wrote:

> "[..]
>   [..]gcc [..]
> [..]
> [..]  It is full ANSI C so far as I can tell
> [..]"
> 
> GCC is not compatible with full ANSI C. Please see
> HTTP://GCC.GNU.org/gcc-3.4/c99status.html

Actually, "full ANSI" is not all that specific.  There are several
standards, C99 being just one."

With C99 being the only one which is currently ANSI C. The status of an
ANSI document does not remain classified by ANSI as a standard forever.

"  The earlier C89/C90 "ANSI standard" [..]"

Which had been ANSI C and is not now ANSI C.

"[..]

But at least they do actually publish where in the standards that
support is not complete.  I wonder if we could see such a detailed
standards conformance document from the other compiler vendors?"

It is very common for even vendors to claim they are using "ANSI C" when
they are not even aware of what the term means.