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<p>This page describes the C99 support in mainline GCC, not in any
particular release. Information is also available on <a
+href="gcc-4.7/c99status.html">C99 support in GCC 4.7</a>, <a
href="gcc-4.6/c99status.html">C99 support in GCC 4.6</a>, <a
href="gcc-4.5/c99status.html">C99 support in GCC 4.5</a>, <a
href="gcc-4.4/c99status.html">C99 support in GCC 4.4</a>, <a
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+<html>
+
+<head>
+<title>Status of C99 features in GCC 4.7</title>
+</head>
+
+<body>
+<h1>Status of C99 features in GCC 4.7</h1>
+
+<p>This table is based on the list in the foreword to <a
+href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf">N1256</a>
+(ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (E), consolidated with ISO/IEC 9899:1999/Cor.1:2001
+(E), ISO/IEC 9899:1999/Cor.2:2004 (E) and ISO/IEC 9899:1999/Cor.3:2007
+(E)).</p>
+
+<p>Where "Library Issue" is listed in conjunction with some other
+status, this means that some compiler support is needed for the
+library support, or desirable in conjunction with it. Note that the
+headers required of conforming freestanding implementations (clause 4
+paragraph 6) do not count as library issues.</p>
+
+<p>This page describes the C99 support in GCC 4.7. Information on <a
+href="../c99status.html">C99 support in mainline GCC</a> is also
+available.</p>
+
+<p>See below the table for further notes on some issues.</p>
+
+<table border="1">
+<tr><th>Feature</th>
+ <th>Library Issue</th>
+ <th>Done</th>
+ <th>Broken</th>
+ <th>Missing</th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>restricted character set support via digraphs and
+ <br /><code><iso646.h></code> (originally specified in AMD1)</em></td>
+ <td></td>
+ <td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>wide character library support in
+ <code><wchar.h></code><br />and <code><wctype.h></code>
+ (originally specified in AMD1)</em></td>
+ <td>Library Issue</td>
+ <td></td><td></td><td>Missing</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>more precise aliasing rules via effective type</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>restricted pointers</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>variable-length arrays</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td>
+ <td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>flexible array members</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em><code>static</code> and type qualifiers<br />in parameter array declarators</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>complex (and imaginary) support in <code><complex.h></code></em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>type-generic math macros in <code><tgmath.h></code></em></td>
+ <td>Library Issue</td>
+ <td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>the <code>long long int</code> type and library functions</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>increased minimum translation limits</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>additional floating-point characteristics<br />in <code><float.h></code></em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>remove implicit <code>int</code></em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>reliable integer division</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>universal character names (<code>\u</code> and <code>\U</code>)</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>extended identifiers</em></td>
+ <td></td><td></td><td></td><td>Missing</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>hexadecimal floating-point constants and
+ <code>%a</code><br /> and <code>%A</code>
+ <code>printf</code>/<code>scanf</code> conversion specifiers</em></td>
+ <td>Library Issue</td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>compound literals</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td>
+ <td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>designated initializers</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td>
+ <td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em><code>//</code> comments</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>library functions in <code><inttypes.h></code></em></td>
+ <td>Library Issue</td>
+ <td></td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>extended integer types in <code><stdint.h></code></em></td>
+ <td></td>
+ <td></td><td></td><td>Missing</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>remove implicit function declaration</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>preprocessor arithmetic<br />done in <code>intmax_t</code>/<code>uintmax_t</code></em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>mixed declarations and code</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>new block scopes for selection<br />and iteration statements</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>integer constant type rules</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>integer promotion rules</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>macros with a variable number of arguments</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>the <code>vscanf</code> family of functions
+ in<br /><code><stdio.h></code> and <code><wchar.h></code></em></td>
+ <td>Library Issue</td>
+ <td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>additional math library functions in <code><math.h></code></em></td>
+ <td>Library Issue</td>
+ <td></td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>treatment of error conditions by math library functions (<code>math_errhandling</code>)</em></td>
+ <td>Library Issue</td>
+ <td></td><td></td><td>Missing</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>floating-point environment access<br />in <code><fenv.h></code></em></td>
+ <td>Library Issue</td>
+ <td></td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>IEC 60559 (also known as<br />IEC 559 or IEEE arithmetic) support</em></td>
+ <td></td><td></td><td>Broken</td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>trailing comma allowed in <code>enum</code> declaration</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em><code>%lf</code> conversion specifier<br />allowed in <code>printf</code></em></td>
+ <td>Library Issue</td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>inline functions</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td>
+ <td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>the <code>snprintf</code> family of functions in <code><stdio.h></code></em></td>
+ <td>Library Issue</td>
+ <td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>boolean type in <code><stdbool.h></code></em></td>
+ <td></td>
+ <td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>idempotent type qualifiers</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>empty macro arguments</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>new struct type compatibility<br />rules (tag compatibility)</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>additional predefined macro names</em></td>
+ <td></td><td></td><td></td><td>Missing</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em><code>_Pragma</code> preprocessing operator</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>standard pragmas</em></td>
+ <td></td><td></td><td></td><td>Missing</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em><code>__func__</code> predefined identifier</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em><code>va_copy</code> macro</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>additional <code>strftime</code> conversion specifiers</em></td>
+ <td>Library Issue</td><td>Done</td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>deprecate <code>ungetc</code> at the<br />beginning of a binary file</em></td>
+ <td>Library Issue</td>
+ <td></td><td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>remove deprecation of<br />aliased array parameters</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>conversion of array to pointer not limited to lvalues</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>relaxed constraints on aggregate<br />and union initialization</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em>relaxed restrictions on portable header names</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><td><em><code>return</code> without expression not permitted
+ in<br />function that returns a value (and vice versa)</em></td>
+ <td></td><td>Done</td>
+ <td></td><td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr><th>Feature</th>
+ <th>Library Issue</th>
+ <th>Done</th>
+ <th>Broken</th>
+ <th>Missing</th>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<h2>Further notes</h2>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>cpp has limited support for multibyte character sets.</li>
+
+<li>IEC 60559 is IEEE 754 floating point. This works if and only if
+the hardware is perfectly compliant, but GCC does not define
+<code>__STDC_IEC_559__</code> or implement the associated standard
+pragmas; nor do some options such as <code>-frounding-math</code> to
+enable the pragmas globally work in all cases (for example, required
+exceptions may not be generated) and contracting expressions (e.g.,
+using fused multiply-add) is not restricted to source-language
+expressions as required by C99.</li>
+
+<li>Compiler support is needed for thorough support of <code>math_errhandling</code>; see
+messages <a
+href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2000-06/msg00008.html">1</a>,
+<a
+href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2000-06/msg00014.html">2</a>,
+<a
+href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2000-06/msg00015.html">3</a>
+on this subject to libc-hacker. The compiler needs to mark its output
+from compilations using <code>-fno-trapping-math</code>
+or <code>-fno-math-errno</code>, possibly using
+the <code>.gnu_attribute</code> mechanism, to indicate that built-in
+function optimizations may have been applied that mean that not all
+calls report error status in a particular way; the static linker
+needs to put this information in executables and shared libraries and
+the C library needs to use it to set <code>math_errhandling</code> at
+startup to a conservatively correct value based on the information
+from the compiler. There is currently some limited GNU C Library
+support that only conforms as long as the above options are not used
+anywhere in the program.</li>
+
+<li>GCC doesn't have <code>wprintf</code>, <code>wscanf</code> and
+<code>wcsftime</code> format checking support.</li>
+
+<li>GCC does not support the Annex G imaginary types and complex
+multiplication and division have excess overflows at runtime (although
+not beyond those permitted by C99).</li>
+
+<li><code><stdint.h></code> is provided by GCC, or fixed where
+the system headers provide a nonconforming version, on some but not
+yet all systems. On systems where types in this header have been
+defined as <code>char</code>, GCC retains this definition although it
+is not permitted by C99.</li>
+
+<li>Some of the C99 predefined macros represent properties of the
+compiler and library together and so defining them for the whole
+translation unit requires cooperation with the library;
+a <a href="http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2009-04/msg00005.html">GNU
+C Library patch</a> for this is pending review.</li>
+
+<li><code>const</code>-qualified compound literals could share storage
+with each other and with string literals, but currently don't.</li>
+
+<li>The information provided by <code>static</code> in parameter array
+declarators is not used for optimization. It might make sense to use
+it in future in conjunction with <a href="../projects/prefetch.html">work
+on prefetching</a>.</li>
+
+<li>The list above differs from that in N1256 as follows:
+"LIA compatibility annex" is removed, since it refers to C99's
+conformance to another standard rather than something for C
+implementations to do. The <code><stdint.h></code> and
+<code><inttypes.h></code> entries have been separated, but are a
+single entry in C99.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+</body>
+</html>
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@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
A new edition of the ISO C standard was published in 1999 as ISO/IEC
9899:1999, and is commonly known as @dfn{C99}. GCC has incomplete
support for this standard version; see
-@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html} for details. To select this
+@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/c99status.html} for details. To select this
standard, use @option{-std=c99} or @option{-std=iso9899:1999}. (While in
development, drafts of this standard version were referred to as
@dfn{C9X}.)
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@@ -1570,7 +1570,7 @@
@itemx iso9899:1999
@itemx iso9899:199x
ISO C99. Note that this standard is not yet fully supported; see
-@w{@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html}} for more information. The
+@w{@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/c99status.html}} for more information. The
names @samp{c9x} and @samp{iso9899:199x} are deprecated.
@item c11
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-03-13 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
+
+ * doc/invoke.texi (-std=c99), doc/standards.texi (C language):
+ Refer to GCC 4.7 version of c99status.html.
+
2012-03-12 Michael Meissner <meissner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Backport from mainline