Now Supports ISO/IEC c99 Standard
As of the 7.4 release of the MIPSpro C Compiler, the C compiler supports the c99 standard when invoked with the -c99 flag or when the c99 command is used. Other new features with this release of the compiler include:

• _Bool, _Complex, and _Imaginary keywords and data types
• _Complex type mathematical functions
• Variable declaration in for loops
• Compound literals
• __func__ predefined identifier
• Flexible array structure members
• Restricted qualified pointers
• Variable arguments in macros
• Interspersed code and declarations
• Designated initializers for arrays, structures, and unions

In addition, new functions for wide-character support and new format modifiers for printf() are provided in the C Standard library (libc) in IRIX® 6.5.18.

The MIPSpro ANSI C Compiler conforms to the ISO/ANSI C standard as well as the standard defined by Kernigan and Ritchie in The C Programming Language. The IRIX® compiler takes advantage of special instructions on MIPS® processor-based architectures, creating efficient executables.

Automatic parallelization of C code is available with the APO option.

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