Standard C etc.?

jg.campbell.ng_at_gmail.com
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: 28 Mar 2005 02:50:49 -0800

I'm coming back to C after a significant absence. This is to teach a
course on OpenGL; I would like to wrap everything in C++ classes, but I
don't think I have the time. And the better textbooks use plain C.

Where possible I use GNU C; maybe via MinGW on a Windows machine.

Previously, I used gcc as:

  gcc -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes

and insisted that students do the same, i.e. I refuse to help in
debugging unless these switches are used.

For learning, is that still optimal?

I see that 'gcc' alone will now permit // comments. Are // comments
part of any C standard?

Maybe the question could be rephrased as: what are the significant
changes since Summit's C Programming FAQs book (1996)?

TIA,

Jon C.