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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@pla...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] C99
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:19:45 -0500

	Is there any plan to update ape/cc to be C99 compliant?

Whoops.  I misread this, thinking it said "way" not "plan".

A slightly helpful answer: I printed the spec and got _very_
scared away.  In my cynical view, it's not clear how much
good it would do anyway.  The even larger can of worms is the
Single Unix spec.  I doubt the number of exactly conforming
C99/SUSV programs is much higher than the number of exactly
conforming ANSI/POSIX programs currently in existence.

A few weeks ago, I rewrote u9fs with the Single Unix spec
in hand, so that it would just compile everywhere without
any changes whatsoever.  But it was not to be.  As usual,
vendors' implementations vary in subtle ways so that we're
still not at "write once, compile & run anywhere" in any
real sense.

Russ