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authorStephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>2014-05-30 13:03:45 (GMT)
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Features: Enable compiler extensions by default.
Compilers enable their extensions by default, and disabling them implicitly can lead to results which are surprising or non-obvious to debug. http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/cmake-developers/2014-May/010575.html http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/10214 https://www.mail-archive.com/cmake-developers@cmake.org/msg10116.html (Compiler feature extensions by default, 29 May 2014)
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ The C standard whose features are requested to build this target.
This property specifies the C standard whose features are requested
to build this target. For some compilers, this results in adding a
-flag such as ``-std=c11`` to the compile line.
+flag such as ``-std=gnu11`` to the compile line.
Supported values are ``90``, ``99`` and ``11``.
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ means that using:
set_property(TARGET tgt PROPERTY C_STANDARD 11)
-with a compiler which does not support ``-std=c11`` or an equivalent
+with a compiler which does not support ``-std=gnu11`` or an equivalent
flag will not result in an error or warning, but will instead add the
-``-std=c99`` or ``-std=c90`` flag if supported. This "decay" behavior may
+``-std=gnu99`` or ``-std=gnu90`` flag if supported. This "decay" behavior may
be controlled with the :prop_tgt:`C_STANDARD_REQUIRED` target property.
See the :manual:`cmake-compile-features(7)` manual for information on