getopt with gcc -ansi

Paul Eggert eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU
Wed Aug 11 15:04:00 GMT 2004


Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> sleep is allowed everywhere <unistd.h> is allowed, but not getopt.

But in POSIX 1003.1-2004, getopt and sleep are both required functions
on the same footing; neither is an XSI extension, for example.
Perhaps this wasn't true in older POSIX revisions, but it's true now.
The "-ansi" flag should affect only the C standard level, not the
POSIX revision level, no?



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