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		cliveowen on March 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Are Your GCC Flags? Is there a way to specify C89 but use the C99 style comments (i.e. //)?

mpyne on March 10, 2014 [–]

I believe that -std=gnu89 should give you C89 with that particular extension (and some others).

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