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author | jsm28 <jsm28@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4> | 2001-01-12 18:51:27 +0000 |
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committer | jsm28 <jsm28@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4> | 2001-01-12 18:51:27 +0000 |
commit | 78b1f6163226be37876ba7473acd9fac7b24282a (patch) | |
tree | fb4bf44c735f9abf9e38f7f9106636f36c297176 /gcc/extend.texi | |
parent | 5446ae1af5df904c9258b62822c366af52e51ce1 (diff) | |
download | gcc-78b1f6163226be37876ba7473acd9fac7b24282a.tar.gz |
* cpp.texi, extend.texi, gcc.texi, install.texi, invoke.texi,
tm.texi: Consistently refer to ISO C instead of ANSI C. Refer to
-std options alongside references to -ansi. Update some
documentation for C99.
* cpp.1: Regenerate.
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@38956 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
Diffstat (limited to 'gcc/extend.texi')
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1 files changed, 31 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/extend.texi b/gcc/extend.texi index 0b583a03250..45dda7cb319 100644 --- a/gcc/extend.texi +++ b/gcc/extend.texi @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ @cindex extensions, C language @cindex C language extensions -GNU C provides several language features not found in ANSI standard C. +GNU C provides several language features not found in ISO standard C. (The @samp{-pedantic} option directs GNU CC to print a warning message if any of these features is used.) To test for the availability of these features in conditional compilation, check for a predefined macro @@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ These extensions are available in C and Objective C. Most of them are also available in C++. @xref{C++ Extensions,,Extensions to the C++ Language}, for extensions that apply @emph{only} to C++. +@c FIXME: document clearly which features are in ISO C99, but also +@c accepted as extensions for -std=gnu89 and possibly for C++. +@c See PR other/930. + +@c FIXME: the documentation for preprocessor extensions here is out of +@c date. See PR other/928. + @c The only difference between the two versions of this menu is that the @c version for clear INTERNALS has an extra node, "Constraints" (which @c appears in a separate chapter in the other version of the manual). @@ -590,7 +597,7 @@ typeof (int *) @noindent Here the type described is that of pointers to @code{int}. -If you are writing a header file that must work when included in ANSI C +If you are writing a header file that must work when included in ISO C programs, write @code{__typeof__} instead of @code{typeof}. @xref{Alternate Keywords}. @@ -1932,7 +1939,7 @@ Preprocessing Directives, cpp, The C Preprocessor}. @cindex old-style function definitions @cindex promotion of formal parameters -GNU C extends ANSI C to allow a function prototype to override a later +GNU C extends ISO C to allow a function prototype to override a later old-style non-prototype definition. Consider the following example: @example @@ -1955,13 +1962,13 @@ isroot (x) /* ??? lossage here ??? */ @} @end example -Suppose the type @code{uid_t} happens to be @code{short}. ANSI C does +Suppose the type @code{uid_t} happens to be @code{short}. ISO C does not allow this example, because subword arguments in old-style non-prototype definitions are promoted. Therefore in this example the function definition's argument is really an @code{int}, which does not match the prototype argument type of @code{short}. -This restriction of ANSI C makes it hard to write code that is portable +This restriction of ISO C makes it hard to write code that is portable to traditional C compilers, because the programmer does not know whether the @code{uid_t} type is @code{short}, @code{int}, or @code{long}. Therefore, in cases like these GNU C allows a prototype @@ -1994,7 +2001,8 @@ In GNU C, you may use C++ style comments, which start with @samp{//} and continue until the end of the line. Many other C implementations allow such comments, and they are likely to be in a future C standard. However, C++ style comments are not recognized if you specify -@w{@samp{-ansi}} or @w{@samp{-traditional}}, since they are incompatible +@w{@samp{-ansi}}, a @option{-std} option specifying a version of ISO C +before C99, or @w{@samp{-traditional}}, since they are incompatible with traditional constructs like @code{dividend//*comment*/divisor}. @node Dollar Signs @@ -2336,7 +2344,7 @@ store) instructions when copying one variable of type @code{struct S} to another, thus improving run-time efficiency. Note that the alignment of any given @code{struct} or @code{union} type -is required by the ANSI C standard to be at least a perfect multiple of +is required by the ISO C standard to be at least a perfect multiple of the lowest common multiple of the alignments of all of the members of the @code{struct} or @code{union} in question. This means that you @emph{can} effectively adjust the alignment of a @code{struct} or @code{union} @@ -2512,7 +2520,7 @@ inc (int *a) @} @end example -(If you are writing a header file to be included in ANSI C programs, write +(If you are writing a header file to be included in ISO C programs, write @code{__inline__} instead of @code{inline}. @xref{Alternate Keywords}.) You can also make all ``simple enough'' functions inline with the option @samp{-finline-functions}. @@ -2840,7 +2848,7 @@ For reasons similar to those described above, it is not possible to give an assembler instruction access to the condition code left by previous instructions. -If you are writing a header file that should be includable in ANSI C +If you are writing a header file that should be includable in ISO C programs, write @code{__asm__} instead of @code{asm}. @xref{Alternate Keywords}. @@ -3165,15 +3173,20 @@ be deleted or moved or simplified. @cindex alternate keywords @cindex keywords, alternate -The option @samp{-traditional} disables certain keywords; @samp{-ansi} -disables certain others. This causes trouble when you want to use GNU C -extensions, or ANSI C features, in a general-purpose header file that -should be usable by all programs, including ANSI C programs and traditional -ones. The keywords @code{asm}, @code{typeof} and @code{inline} cannot be -used since they won't work in a program compiled with @samp{-ansi}, while -the keywords @code{const}, @code{volatile}, @code{signed}, @code{typeof} -and @code{inline} won't work in a program compiled with -@samp{-traditional}.@refill +The option @option{-traditional} disables certain keywords; +@option{-ansi} and the various @option{-std} options disable certain +others. This causes trouble when you want to use GNU C extensions, or +ISO C features, in a general-purpose header file that should be usable +by all programs, including ISO C programs and traditional ones. The +keywords @code{asm}, @code{typeof} and @code{inline} cannot be used +since they won't work in a program compiled with @option{-ansi} +(although @code{inline} can be used in a program compiled with +@option{-std=c99}), while the keywords @code{const}, @code{volatile}, +@code{signed}, @code{typeof} and @code{inline} won't work in a program +compiled with @option{-traditional}. The ISO C99 keyword +@code{restrict} is only available when @option{-std=gnu99} (which will +eventually be the default) or @option{-std=c99} (or the equivalent +@option{-std=iso9899:1999}) is used.@refill The way to solve these problems is to put @samp{__} at the beginning and end of each problematical keyword. For example, use @code{__asm__} |