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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:48:05 -0700
From: Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt AT recycle DOT lbl DOT gov>
To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [geda-user] C99
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DJ -

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 02:18:38PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> My only concern about C99 is that, despite appearing to be 16 years
> old, it's not.  GCC 4 still defaults to C89, you need to override the
> default or use GCC 5 to get C99 by default.

I've used --std=c99 with gcc for at least ten years now.
The only reason for gcc to use c89 mode by default is pure
inertia and compatibility with (prehistoric) legacy code.
IMHO, C99 is preferred for newly written code, and I'm pretty
sure that's a consensus opinion.

  - Larry