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27.Dd September 24, 2008
28.Dt C99 1
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm c99
32.Nd ANSI (1999) C compiler
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Nm
35.Op Fl pedantic
36.Op Fl pedantic-errors
37.Op Fl D_ANSI_SOURCE
38.Op options ...
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40Calls the C compiler (cc) with the given
41.Ar options ,
42using a C language environment compatible with the
43.St -isoC-99
44specification.
45.Pp
46This includes
47inline functions, variable-length arrays, support for one-line
48comments beginning with //,
49disabling non-ANSI compiler features (such as
50.Ar asm ,
51.Ar typeof ,
52and the $ character in identifiers),
53and definition of the preprocessor symbol
54.Ev __STRICT_ANSI__ .
55.Pp
56The following options are available:
57.Bl -tag -width "-pedantic-errorsxx"
58.It Fl pedantic
59Issue extra warnings defined by ANSI for use of non-ANSI features.
60.It Fl pedantic-errors
61Issue errors instead of warnings that normally would be presented by
62.Fl pedantic .
63.It Fl D_ANSI_SOURCE
64Tell the system header file set to use an ANSI-conformant "clean" namespace.
65.El
66.Sh SEE ALSO
67.Xr cc 1
68.Sh STANDARDS
69.Nm
70conforms to
71.St -p1003.2-92 .
72.Sh HISTORY
73.Nm
74first appeared in
75.Nx 5.0 .
76.Sh BUGS
77Since
78.Nm
79is a shell wrapper script to
80.Ar cc ,
81compile errors are prefixed by "cc:".
82