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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Don't be fooled by cpp.sh
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 20:40:27 -0800
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Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> writes:
> On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 20:11:17 +0100, David Brown
> <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
[...]
>>I really don't understand why these were made optional in C11.  Who is 
>>going to make a compiler that is C11 compliant but not C99 compliant? 
>>Who is going to be capable of making a C11 compiler but find supporting 
>>VLA's or complex numbers a major issue?
>
> My point exactly.  I don't even understand why complex was optional in
> C99 for freestanding implementations.

Freestanding implementations don't have to provide library functions,
and complex numbers aren't very useful without the functions declared in
<complex.h> such as creal() and cimag().

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void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */