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Originally Posted by backrow View Post
PCC claims to be working towards C99 compliance. I wonder if this means that after a switch, the BSDs would be more likely to use C99 features.
C99 mostly refers to a style (syntax parser) as opose to K-R style in which programs are written rather than anything more substantial.

Your second remark about OpenBSD developers being careful that their code has to compile on tree different versions of GCC is rather silly. OpenBSD is not Linux. Code is written in the fashion that will compile on any C99 complaint compiler. Full stop. Compiler dependent code and architecture dependent code is big nono and mostly practice by Linux community and industry when it wants to prevent competition.
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