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C89(1)                      General Commands Manual                     C89(1)

NAME
     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 ANSI X3.159-1989 ("ANSI C89")
     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__.

     The following options are available:

     -pedantic           Issue extra warnings defined by ANSI for use of non-
                         ANSI features.

     -pedantic-errors    Issue errors instead of warnings that normally would
                         be presented by -pedantic.

     -D_ANSI_SOURCE      Tell the system header file set to use an ANSI-
                         conformant "clean" namespace.

SEE ALSO
     cc(1)

STANDARDS
     c89 conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 ("POSIX.2").

HISTORY
     c89 appeared in NetBSD 1.4.

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

NetBSD 10.99                    January 5, 1999                   NetBSD 10.99