GCC 4.8 and -ftree-loop-distribute-patterns.

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Rich Felker wrote:

> "A conforming freestanding implementation shall accept any strictly
> conforming program that does not use complex types and in which the
> use of the features specified in the library clause (clause 7) is
> confined to the contents of the standard headers <float.h>,
> <iso646.h>, <limits.h>, <stdarg.h>, <stdbool.h>, <stddef.h>, and
> <stdint.h>."

If you consider accepting to include linking, the implementation is not 
just the compiler but includes the linker and libraries as well, and GCC 
defines the requirements on those other parts of the implementation to 
include the functions listed in the documentation.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com