On Fri, 9 Nov 2012, NightStrike wrote: > Making c99 the default for gcc would be a great candidate for this. > IIUC, gcc without -std=c99 will compile for c89. And if I read the > manual correctly, it's because c99 isn't finished yet. gcc 5.0 should > have a complete c99.
The reason gnu99 is not the default is not that certain corner cases of extended identifiers do not work ideally (in particular regarding handling of different source-code spellings of the same UCN) and so extended identifiers are still in their own option rather than enabled by default for C99 and C++, it's that there is no warning option to warn about C90/C99 incompatibilities when compiling in gnu99 mode to at least the extent -pedantic diagnoses things when compiling in gnu89 mode. Given such a warning option I think it would be reasonable to make gnu99 the default. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
