c89 (1) - Linux Manuals

c89: ANSI (1989) C compiler

NAME

c89 - ANSI (1989) C compiler

SYNOPSIS

c89 [-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 , inline , typeof , and the $ character in identifiers), and definition of the preprocessor symbol __STRICT_ANSI__ .

HISTORY

Appeared in NetBSD 1.4 .

BUGS

Since c89 is a shell wrapper script to cc , compile errors are prefixed by "cc:".