[Rd] Tip for removing -c99 when compiling with icc

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Prof Brian Ripley writes:

> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote:
>> Dear developeRs,
>> 
>> As of icc 10, the -c99 option is deprecated, and generates a lot of
>> warnings when compiling R or R packages.
>> 
>> If you use CC="icc -std=c99" instead of just CC="icc", R's configure
>> will not add the -c99 option, and the code seems to compile and run just
>> fine.

> It's not really R, but autoconf's macro (I believe called from AC_PROG_CC) 
> which does

> for ac_arg in '' -std=gnu99 -c99 -qlanglvl=extc99

> One day autoconf will catch up with icc and try -std=c99 as well.  (It
> may already have done so: we are using the 3-year-old 2.61 as PD has
> that on the release system, Mac OS X still does ....)

>From a quick look: I e.g. on Debian testing have 2.61 (released 2006)
which has

dnl Try
dnl GCC         -std=gnu99 (unused restrictive modes: -std=c99 -std=iso9899:1999)
dnl AIX         -qlanglvl=extc99 (unused restrictive mode: -qlanglvl=stdc99)
dnl Intel ICC   -c99
dnl IRIX        -c99
dnl Solaris     (unused because it causes the compiler to assume C99 semantics for
dnl             library functions, and this is invalid before Solaris 10: -xc99)
dnl Tru64       -c99

The Autoconf CVS otoh has

dnl Try
dnl GCC         -std=gnu99 (unused restrictive modes: -std=c99 -std=iso9899:1999)
dnl AIX         -qlanglvl=extc99 (unused restrictive mode: -qlanglvl=stdc99)
dnl HP cc       -AC99
dnl Intel ICC   -std=c99, -c99 (deprecated)
dnl IRIX        -c99
dnl Solaris     -xc99=all (Forte Developer 7 C mishandles -xc99 on Solaris 9,
dnl             as it incorrectly assumes C99 semantics for library functions)
dnl Tru64       -c99

so I assume would do better ...

We could try doing some compiler-specific fixing in our configure code.

Best
-k

>> (Please don't hesitate to let me know if this is a bad idea. :-)

> It is fine: I'll add a note to the manual.

>> 
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Bjørn-Helge Mevik
>> 
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