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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered  "too specialized" for scientific use
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* Keith Thompson:

> Unfortunately, the C99 standard has not yet been universally adopted.
> Very few compilers fully support it.  Many support most of it,
> but I understand that Microsoft's compiler still supports only C90
> (with maybe a handful of C99-specific features).

SPEC2006 contains a benchmark which needs C99 complex values (or some
variant of that), so you better support that, or you can't get a
score.