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Re: Is Gnulib still targeting C89?
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Tim Rice |
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Re: Is Gnulib still targeting C89? |
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Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:11:30 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > In general gnulib is still targeting c89 right?
> > BTW, when should we update that requirement?
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> Now is a good time. As far as I know, no Gnulib-using application still
> requires porting to C89-only platforms. Although we still may have some issues
> with old C libraries that support C89 but not C99 behavior, we no longer need
> to worry about porting to C89-only compilers. In other words, all platforms
> that we care about now have a compiler available that supports significant C99
> features (even if it does not support full C99).
Sad to hear gnulib doesn't care about C89. UnixWare (a currently shipping
product) has a C89 compiler.
I was hoping to find time to upstream my patch to get UnixWare farther along
with gnulib but I guess it's wasted time now.
Such is life with long lived products.
> With that in mind, I propose (and have installed) the attached patch to try to
> document the current situation more accurately. Comments and further patches
> are welcome.
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Re: [PATCH] parse-datetime: use labs for long int, Pádraig Brady, 2017/04/22