On Oct 21, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 11:25 AM -0700 10/21/04, Bill Coffman wrote:I read somewhere that the requirement for parrot code is that it should be compliant with the ANSI C'89 standard. Can someone point me to a description of the C89 spec, so I can make sure my reg_alloc.c patch is C89 compliant?
I don't think the ANSI C89 spec is freely available, though I may be wrong. (Google didn't find it easily, but I don't always get along well with Google) If the patch builds without warning with parrot's standard switches then you should be OK. (ANSI C89 was the first big rev of C after the original K&R C. If you've got the second edition or later of the K&R C book, it uses the C89 spec)
Also, if you're compiling with gcc, then you can pass "-std=c89" to the compiler to enforce that particular standard. (Apparently--though I haven't tried it.) I believe "-ansi" does the same thing.
JEff
