Re: So what Standard are we working off?

Mark F. Haigh said:

Richard Heathfield wrote:

<snip>

I think the part of the C community that cares about portability wants a
widely-implemented standard, which it already has. Until C99 becomes as
widespread as C90, why would anyone use it if they need portability?

Come on, quit being so negative. Having everybody agree on "restrict"
now, for example, is better than a bunch of subtly incompatible type
aliasing optimization extensions later.

Not if it stops my program from compiling.

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