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From: Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org>
To: "Hongzheng Wang" <wanghz@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gsl@gnu.org
Cc: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [Help-gsl] GSL and C99 standard
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsn5irwq.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b954b2060804090947j2574cf96y4ce9262b2fd55e77@mail.gmail.com>

At Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:47:06 +0800,
Hongzheng Wang wrote:
> Although C99 standard has not been fully implemented in GCC, several
> new key features, e.g. complex type support, are indeed useful to
> numerical computations.  So, I wonder if there is any plan for the
> development of GSL to embrass C99 standard and adopt these useful
> offers.

Do complex types acually work now? I haven't checked for a while but
according to http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.3/c99status.html they weren't
completed.

I would like to keep C89 compatibility, which limits the extent to
which any new features can be used.

-- 
Brian Gough

       reply	other threads:[~2008-04-10 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <b954b2060804090947j2574cf96y4ce9262b2fd55e77@mail.gmail.com>
2008-04-10 16:42 ` Brian Gough [this message]
2008-04-10 19:19   ` Gerard Jungman
2008-04-11  8:00   ` Hongzheng Wang
2008-04-11 12:41   ` Heikki Orsila
2008-04-15 10:37     ` Brian Gough
2008-04-15 11:00       ` Heikki Orsila
2008-04-15 15:12         ` Hongzheng Wang

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