c99 Command

c99 is a command line utility for compiling C99 source code. C99 is a standard for the C programming language that was first published in 1999 and introduced several new features and improvements to the language, such as variable-length arrays and new data types.

The c99 command is typically used to compile C99 source code into an executable program. The basic syntax for the c99 command is:

c99 [options] file.c -o file

Where options are any command line options you want to pass to the compiler, file.c is the name of the C99 source code file you want to compile, and -o file is used to specify the name of the output file.

Here’s an example of using c99 to compile a C99 source code file called myprogram.c into an executable file called myprogram:

c99 myprogram.c -o myprogram

You can also use the -Wall option to enable all warning messages from the compiler:

c99 -Wall myprogram.c -o myprogram

It is also possible to specify include paths for header files with -I options:

c99 -I/usr/local/include myprogram.c -o myprogram

It’s worth noting that c99 command is not always a standard command and not present in all systems, and the command is from a specific distribution, or a specific GCC version . This is because the c99 command is a front-end script of gcc command. So typically you can use gcc command to compile C99 code, by using the -std=c99 flag.

gcc -std=c99 myprogram.c -o myprogram

Also if you have a more recent version of GCC, C99 is the default standard for C language and you don’t need to specify -std=c99

2 min

Other Linux Commands

0 Comments

Cancel reply

Other Linux Commands

0 Comments

Cancel reply

Login