From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22401 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2010 09:43:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 22390 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Feb 2010 09:43:56 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-fx0-f222.google.com (HELO mail-fx0-f222.google.com) (209.85.220.222) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:43:52 +0000 Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so999247fxm.16 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:43:50 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.137.69 with SMTP id k5mr157351hbk.97.1265881430131; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:43:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <35520.10.0.66.17.1265842168.squirrel@interact.purplecow.org> From: Alexey Salmin Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:00:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87a8dc11002110143u533f4451xc9fd0eb88ae3fca5@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Why is gcc going to default to "GNU dialect of ISO C99?" To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Cc: dclarke@blastwave.org, aph@redhat.com, david.kirkby@onetel.net, ams@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-02/txt/msg00158.txt.bz2 It all reminds me a story when I won a bottle of beer from my scientific adviser back in 2005. We had a bet: will gcc compile this code: #include int main() { printf("a"); int a; printf("b"); return 0; } He was so sure that gcc won't allow it that didn't ever tried :) Thus, I think gnu extensions by default are not so bad :) Alexey