minimal requirements for build C compiler?

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 19 May 2006 10:10 pm, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:08:28PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 May 2006 9:39 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >   what C standard is the build compiler for busybox expected to adhere
> > > to?  more specifically, can i expect C99 so i can use designated
> > > initializers for aggregate types?
> >
> > Yup.  We went to c99 in 1.1.1, when we dropped support for gcc 2.95.
>
> gcc 2.95 supports about 95% of c99 and gcc4 supports about 97% of c99..

If it works for you, have fun.  I no longer builds the linux kernel, that I 
know...

Rob
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