c99(1)

c991

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 , inline , typeof , and the $ character in identifiers), and definition of the preprocessor symbol __STRICT_ANSI__ .

History

Appeared in NetBSD 1.4 .

Bugs

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

From gcc 4:3.3.5-3 in Debian 3.1 (Sarge). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.