C89(1)

🎀 C89(1) 🎀

Manual name: General Commands Manual 📖 (this is the section where all the good stuff lives, bestie 🧚)

✨ NAME ✨

c89 💖 is an ANSI (1989) C compiler. Yes, it's an actual compiler, and it's giving vintage. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

c89 [-pedantic] [-pedantic-errors] [-D_ANSI_SOURCE] options ...

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so c89 basically calls the C compiler (cc) for you with whatever options you hand it 🫶, but it sets up a C language environment that's compatible with the -ansiC specification. so it's strict, it's proper, it's very "I read the rules" energy ✨

here's the tea 🍵 it handles trigraphs properly (main character behavior 👑), and it turns off the non-ANSI compiler features like asm, inline, typeof, and the $ character in identifiers. no cap, those are all banned in this environment 🙈 It also defines the preprocessor symbol __STRICT_ANSI__ 💜 so your code can check that it's running in strict mode. iconic, honestly.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

cc(1) has the full rundown of all the options 🍓 go check it out, it's literally the source of truth.

🕰️ HISTORY 🕰️

This one appeared in NetBSD 1.4 ✨ it's been around, it's got history, it's aging like fine wine 🍷

😭 BUGS 😭

⚠️ bestie, real talk: c89 is a shell wrapper script 🐚 that just hands everything off to cc. because of that, any compile errors come out prefixed with "cc:" instead of "c89:". so if you're confused about where that error came from, now you know 🫶

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🌈 That's the whole page, babe! It's C89(1) from the General Commands Manual 💖 go forth and compile responsibly 💅✨