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NAME
c99 - ANSI (1999) C compiler
SYNOPSIS
c99 [-pedantic] [-pedantic-errors] [-D_ANSI_SOURCE] options ...
DESCRIPTION
Calls the C compiler (cc) with the given options , using a C language environment compatible with the -ansiC specification.
This includes proper handling of trigraphs, disabling non-ANSI compiler features (such as asm ,typeof , and the $ character in identifiers), and definition of the preprocessor symbol __STRICT_ANSI__ .
The status of C99 features implemented in GCC is described at http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/c99status.html
SEE ALSO
cc(1) for a description of all options.
HISTORY
Appeared in NetBSD 1.4 .
BUGS
Since c99 is a shell wrapper script to cc , compile errors are prefixed by "cc:".