getopt with gcc -ansi

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Wed Aug 11 16:28:00 GMT 2004


Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> writes:

> 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?

The -ansi flag provides C89, not POSIX.

Andreas.

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