Re: Opinions about a book

Chris H <chris@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> In message <g0n1mp$1tc$2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, santosh
> <santosh.k83@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
[...]
>>I've heard that the Solaris C compiler is also a
>>full C99 hosted implementation.
>
> However they were done AFAIK for political reasons

Does the reason it was done affect the quality of the implementation?
Or anything else?

>>Intel and gcc have implemented about
>>90% of C99.
>
> Not so for Gcc apparently  I understand that it is no more C99 than
> the majority of other compilers out there.

gcc's C99 status is posted at <http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html>.
 I
don't know about the majority of other compilers, but for example I
understand that Microsoft has made very little effort to conform to
C99 beyond "long long" and "//".

I've already posted Intel's statement that their compiler conforms to
C99.  I can't confirm it, but I have no particular reason to doubt it.

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