[Python-Dev] C99 (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Sun Jun 12 11:10:07 EDT 2016

Michael Felt <michael felt.demon.nl> writes:

I am using IBM xlc aka vac - version 11.

afaik it will deal with c99 features (by default I set it to behave that way because a common 'issue' is C++ style comments, when they should not be that style (fyi: not seen that in Python).

We had a couple of exotic build machines a while ago: xlc, the HPUX compiler and a couple of others all support the subset of C99 we are aiming for. In fact the support of the commercial Unix compilers for C99 is quite good -- the common error messages suggest that several of them use the same front end (Comeau?).

Stefan Krah

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