Re: why the c99 mandate?

2020-04-12 Thread Dan LaBell
I thought if was true, it was, make world, no. Just the kernel, and the compiler, and compiler tools. C O M P U T E R S C I E NC E DECLARES *Arch* = *Machine* + *Compiler* And, while I'm here, it's, really, C89, C*BETWEEN*, and C99 I remember that from college, but I don't remember, how it was

why the c99 mandate?

2020-04-09 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
i read somewhere that the netbsd project now mandates that all new code be c99. i believe that mandate stands true for updates to old code too. may i know the rationale for insisting of c99 when c89 was just fine for so many years? also if the change was inevitable, then why not a newer standard