c99-gcc(1)

c99-gcc1

Ansi (1999) c compiler

Usage

c99 [-pedantic] [-pedantic-errors] [-D_ANSI_SOURCE] options ...

Overview

Calls the C compiler (cc) with the given options , using a C language environment compatible with the -ansiC specification.

This includes proper handling of trigraphs, disabling non-ANSI compiler features (such as asm , typeof , and the $ character in identifiers), and definition of the preprocessor symbol __STRICT_ANSI__ .

The status of C99 features implemented in GCC is described at http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/c99status.html

Releases

10 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 9 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13

History

Appeared in NetBSD 1.4 .

Bugs

Since c99 is a shell wrapper script to cc , compile errors are prefixed by "cc:".

From gcc 4:14.2.0-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.