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.Dd September 24, 2008
.Dt C99 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm c99
.Nd ANSI (1999) C compiler
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl pedantic
.Op Fl pedantic-errors
.Op Fl D_ANSI_SOURCE
.Op options ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Calls the C compiler (cc) with the given
.Ar options ,
using a C language environment compatible with the
.St -isoC-99
specification.
.Pp
This includes
inline functions, variable-length arrays, support for one-line
comments beginning with //,
disabling non-ANSI compiler features (such as
.Ar asm ,
.Ar typeof ,
and the $ character in identifiers),
and definition of the preprocessor symbol
.Ev __STRICT_ANSI__ .
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width "-pedantic-errorsxx"
.It Fl pedantic
Issue extra warnings defined by ANSI for use of non-ANSI features.
.It Fl pedantic-errors
Issue errors instead of warnings that normally would be presented by
.Fl pedantic .
.It Fl D_ANSI_SOURCE
Tell the system header file set to use an ANSI-conformant "clean" namespace.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr cc 1
.Sh STANDARDS
.Nm
conforms to
.St -p1003.2-92 .
.Sh HISTORY
.Nm
first appeared in
.Nx 5.0 .
.Sh BUGS
Since
.Nm
is a shell wrapper script to
.Ar cc ,
compile errors are prefixed by "cc:".
