Re: CERT C Secure Coding Standard - last call for reviewers

jacob navia <jacob@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Keith Thompson wrote:
*You* complain about this?

Yes me. You could see the size and budget difference between gcc's
team (several dozen people working full time) and my effort (two
people working part time).

Understood.

When is your own lcc-win going to be fully C99 compliant?

The only feature really missing is the designator initializers
feature.

Last time I asked you about this, your reply was:

| Designated initializers and structure initializers with the
| dot notation are missing.
| [...]
| Besides the preprocessor is still missing the variable
| arguments feature.

So far, you
seem to be spending most of your time inventing and implementing
extensions rather than finishing work on the implementation of the
core language.

No. I have implemented with my extensions the complex numbers
part of C99, and using the generic functions feature I implemented
all the tgmath.h in a general way.

Yes. I have been extending many things in the compiler and
doing other things like marketing, going to customers, fixing
problems, etc. I haven't been able to do everything I would wish to
do.

And I'm sure the folks working on gcc, even though there are more of
them, haven't been able to do everything they would wish to do.

I'm not criticizing your efforts; I'm merely questioning your attitude
regarding gcc's failure to fully comply to C99.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) <kst-u@xxxxxxx>
Nokia
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
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