From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13130 invoked by alias); 10 Apr 2008 16:42:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 13113 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Apr 2008 16:42:00 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.network-theory.co.uk (HELO mail.network-theory.co.uk) (66.199.228.187) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:41:29 +0000 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:42:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87wsn5irwq.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> From: Brian Gough To: "Hongzheng Wang" Cc: help-gsl@gnu.org Cc: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [Help-gsl] GSL and C99 standard In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) Emacs/22.1 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) Reply-To: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Message-Mac: cb9561fa4e8f64eea7be1a04b68fa747 Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q2/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 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