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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__ .

See Also

cc(1) for a description of all options.

History

Appeared in NetBSD 1.4 .

Bugs

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