From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24222 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2001 16:02:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 24157 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2001 16:02:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tus001.unitus.it) (193.205.144.2) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 19 Nov 2001 16:02:37 -0000 Received: from unitus.it (mozart.scienze.unitus.it [193.205.145.73]) by tus001.unitus.it with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 4BR8PMRZ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:00:29 +0100 Message-ID: <3BF92BBF.FE94BB97@unitus.it> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 04:16:00 -0000 From: Paolo Carlini X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.5 IP32) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Joseph S. Myers" CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: C99 library issues References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00381.txt.bz2 "Joseph S. Myers" wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Paolo Carlini wrote: > > > perusing http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html I got the idea that there are some C99 features > > still missing from the current GLIBC library, right? > > > > In that case, are there any plans to provide them in GLIBC2.3 ?? > > The page has nothing to do with glibc or any other C library. For glibc's > C99 support you should look at CONFORMANCE in the libc source instead. I > believe that the only feature missing in glibc is math_errhandling > (needing compiler support, as the links in c99status.html explain). Yes, thanks. Very slowly I arrived to same conclusion my self (I wrote that somewhere in the GCC lists). Sorry again for the noise I produced. > "Library Issue" on its own means there's nothing for the compiler to do. This explanation could be perhaps added at the beginning of the web page just before the next one, that about the lines having other fields marked too?? Paolo.