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> The purpose of --ansi (or other C dialect selectors) is to affect the
> C dialect used, not the libraries (which are not even part of GCC).

The ANSI standard is more than just a dialect.  It defines a runtime
as well.  So if the user asks for "ANSI compliance" we must comply
with the ANSI runtime standards.

Note that glibc does this also.