[Python-Dev] C99

[Stefan Krah]

Michael Felt <michael <at> felt.demon.nl> writes: 
> I am using IBM xlc aka vac - version 11.
> 
> afaik it will deal with c99 features (by default I set it to behave that 
> way because a common 'issue' is C++ style comments, when they should not 
> be that style (fyi: not seen that in Python).

We had a couple of exotic build machines a while ago: xlc, the
HPUX compiler and a couple of others all support the subset of C99
we are aiming for.  In fact the support of the commercial Unix
compilers for C99 is quite good -- the common error messages
suggest that several of them use the same front end (Comeau?).


Stefan Krah