Nathan and I chatted in IM -- he agrees that this should be fixed, and will be 
looking at this in detail.

On Nov 20, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> While at SC, Brian, Ralph, Nathan and I had long conversations about C99.  We 
> decided:
> 
> - all compilers that we care about seem to support C99
> - so let's move the trunk and v1.7 to *require* C99 and see if anyone screams
>  --> we're NOT doing this in v1.6
> - mind you: we're not (yet) adding any C99 code to OMPI yet; we're just 
> requiring a C99 compiler via configure
> 
> This morning, I noticed that the trunk wrapper compilers are now adding C99 
> flags (it did so with gcc and icc, but not pgcc -- perhaps because pgcc 
> doesn't need any flags to force C99 mode...?).  That does not seem like a 
> good idea -- we certainly don't want to force user apps to be adhere to C99.
> 
> This happens on the trunk; not yet with v1.7.  Nathan just confirmed to me 
> that the C99 configure macro hasn't yet been ported over the v1.7.  
> 
> My $0.02: making sure the wrapper compilers don't slurp in c99 flags should 
> be fixed before bringing to v1.7.
> 
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