This page serves to document various bugs, quirks, extensions, and other non-standards-conforming behavior of various compilers on various platforms. It also documents whether or not the compiler supports some or all of C99.
Supports most of the actually useful pieces of C99 as far back as GCC-3.0. Support is better in newer versions, although still not 100% complete. See the compatibility page for more information, including supported features in versions as far back as 3.0.
Seems to be stricter about some warnings than previous versions of gcc. Need to elaborate on this.
Seems to have a bug where the -O2 default optimization (and even -O1) fails.
Reference: official support list.
Appears to support many C99 features at least as far back as v8, most/all are definitely supported in v10 and later. In particular, VA_ARGS and snprintf are supported.
icc needs "-diag-error 147" in order to make PAC_FUNC_NEEDS_DECL
work correctly as of release 1.4.1p1.
Will display its man page when passed an option it doesn't understand,
including --version, -v, -V, and --help. This can lead to very
large config.log files when configure probes for the compiler type and
version information.
The Sun Studio 8 documentation claims support for most relevant C99 features, such as variable argument list macros. The current version as of this writing is Sun Studio 12 and it claims to have full C99 support.
Issues a warning when an invalid inline assembly instruction is given, but finishes compiling (and reports success) omitting the assembly instructions it couldn't understand. This means we really can't use inline assembly instructions with this compiler because configure can't determine which assembly instructions are valid.
Seems the most useful information is in this blog post. Officially, Microsoft C compiler only supports C90 (which is essentially the same as C89). It has some C99 or even C11 support, but there is no plan for full C99 support.
Testing with VC++ 2010's cl (32-bit, version 16.00.xxxxx.xx):
- <stdint.h> is supported.
- <stdbool.h> and <complex.h> are not supported.
__VA_ARGS__is supported.- Declaring variables in the middle of a block is not supported.
//inline comment is supported.
Appears to support C99 in some form at least as far back as v8 of the compiler (has a -c99 switch). The docs for v9 claim full C99 support.
Supports gcc-style inline assembly in general, but is much touchier about which register constraints are supported in which positions. If you are ever writing inline assembly for PGI, be careful and see mpich tickets and for the final resolution on these issues.
For inline assembly, pgcc interprets output parameters with the the "m" constraint differently if the parameter is a pointer or an int. I filed a ticket with PGI, and they said it'll be fixed in 9.0-1.
(based on docs in a link that may not stay accessible)
Some C99 support, although exactly what is available isn't clear from the documentation and we don't have access to this compiler.
Adds support for
- Flexible array member
- Designated initializers
- Empty macro arguments
This compiler has been owned by Qlogic, SiCortex, and now Cray over the years. It uses a front-end based on GCC so it generally has the same C99 compliance as the version of GCC on which your particular version is based. Because GCC has had usable C99 support for quite a while now, most versions of the Pathscale C compiler should also contain usable C99 support.