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Buggifying critical core modules
Buggifying critical core modules
Posted Mar 20, 2008 18:34 UTC (Thu) by dododge (subscriber, #2870)In reply to: Buggifying critical core modules by dw
Parent article: Who maintains dpkg?
The lesson being: when you run "gcc" with no options, it does not compile the C language, but rather the "GNU C" language. GNU C bears a strong resemblance to C but has many additional and alternate semantics. If you're trying to write portable code and you want gcc to follow Standard C rules, you have to explicitly request it. I normally use, at a minimum: -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall -Wextra
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