Re: [Math-atlas-devel] packaging ATLAS and gcc 4

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>On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 03:14:12PM -0400, R Clint Whaley wrote:
>
>> Can you tell me what part of the ANSI C standard this piece of code
>> fails?
>
>The comment in our bugzilla says it's section 6.2.1 of C99. Let's
>see, see 6.2.2 paragraph 3, and the footnote that goes with it: "A
>function delcaration can contain the stoarge-class specifier static
>only if it is at file scope".

Last I knew, gcc did not fully support C99; I cannot find any such rule
in the ANSI/ISO 9899-1990 standard that I own.  Does anyone know if it
is in that original ANSI C standard, or is gcc 4 C99 compliant but
not ANSI C compliant, or what?  

In one sense it doesn't matter, in that I will change this way of doing things,
if it matches neither C99 or C++, but if the gcc folks are making an _error_
(rather than a warning) of something legal in ANSI C but not in C99, I
think it needs to be reported as a gcc 4 bug.

Thanks,
Clint