https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78829
Bug ID: 78829
Summary: bit-rotten "C99 mode" references in GCC manual
Product: gcc
Version: unknown
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: c
Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
Reporter: sandra at gcc dot gnu.org
Target Milestone: ---
There are quite a few references in the GCC manual to "C99" or "C99 mode" when
it really is describing behavior common to C99 and later standards. This is
really confusing now that GCC defaults to a dialect based on C11 -- the
documentation with the "C99" references was probably written when C90 was still
the default, and now "C99" refers to an old standard instead of a new one. All
these instances need to be reviewed and corrected as necessary.
I also think that we could eliminate some material from extend.texi by just
having a single section with an abbreviated bullet list of C99 features
supported as extensions in GNU C90 mode (VLAs, variadic macros, // comments,
etc). And then maybe group some other things into a section on backward
compatibility features like the alternate syntax for variadic macros (or maybe
we should even deprecate/remove the support for that).
