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Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc)

From jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc)
Date 2011-06-06 15:24 +0200
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Le 06/06/11 15:09, Joel C. Salomon a écrit :
> On 06/05/2011 03:48 AM, jacob navia wrote:
>> Of course much less messy is to fail to provide
>> a C99 library when the system is not C99 like
>> mingw under windows (gcc doesn't run under windows).
>
> Not sure what you mean; the MinGW project supplies GCC running under
> windows, without requiring a Cygwin/MSys UNIX-emulation layer.
>

Yes, but that compiler compiles C99 and uses a C90 library. So we
have had here all those beginners that ask why the C99 printf features
produce nonsense, etc.


> (Of course, as you pointed out, since the MS C runtime it links to is
> not C99-compliant, the best the compiler can do is present a
> free-standing environment -- but with a library *resembling* that of a
> hosted implementation.  See also<http://mingw.org/wiki/C99>.)
>
> --Joel

Yes, a "free standing" but with a library resembling a hosted
environment... That's another way of saying that it will
produce bugs without end.

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OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 13:52 -0700
  Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-06-02 22:16 +0100
  Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 14:18 -0700
    Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 14:37 -0700
      Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-03 09:59 +1200
        Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 15:18 -0700
          Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-03 10:35 +1200
            Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 16:01 -0700
              Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2011-06-03 06:45 -0700
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-03 12:13 -0700
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-06-03 21:35 +0200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-04 08:48 +1200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-06-03 23:28 +0100
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) gordonb.myhxj@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-06-04 00:32 -0500
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-06-04 08:06 +0200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) gordonb.c5zg9@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-06-04 22:03 -0500
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-05 15:47 +1200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-06-05 09:48 +0200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-05 20:22 +1200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-06-05 15:59 +0200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 09:09 -0400
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-06-06 15:24 +0200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 10:17 -0700
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-07 07:46 +1200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 09:35 -0700
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-09 11:18 -0700
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 12:52 -0700
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-10 09:14 +1200
            Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-02 16:04 -0700

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