On Nov 20, 2012, at 10:35 AM, N.M. Maclaren wrote:

> I very, VERY strongly advise you to decide what you mean by that.  Very
> few compilers that 'support' C99 do so for the whole language, and most
> use the more system-dependent features in very different ways.  In theory,
> just enabling C99 could break code, and I know of a few ways that actually
> occurs.  I doubt that they will affect Open MPI.


Some Open MPI developers just want to use some of the C99 syntax, such as the 
struct field initialization syntax.

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