NAME

c99 — ANSI (1999) C compiler

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Calls the C compiler (cc) with the given options, using a C language environment compatible with the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (“ISO C99”) specification.

This includes inline functions, variable-length arrays, support for one-line comments beginning with //, disabling non-ANSI compiler features (such as asm, typeof, and the $ character in identifiers), and definition of the preprocessor symbol __STRICT_ANSI__.

The following options are available:

-pedantic

Issue extra warnings defined by ANSI for use of non-ANSI features.

-pedantic-errors

Issue errors instead of warnings that normally would be presented by -pedantic.

-D_ANSI_SOURCE

Tell the system header file set to use an ANSI-conformant "clean" namespace.

SEE ALSO

cc(1)

STANDARDS

c99 conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (“POSIX.2”).

HISTORY

c99 first appeared in NetBSD 5.0.

BUGS

Since c99 is a shell wrapper script to cc, compile errors are prefixed by "cc:".