Re: Bash not portable to C23

[Paul Eggert]

On 3/23/23 18:23, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023, at 9:16 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > I see that Bash won't compile with a C23 compiler, since it still uses
> > old-style function definitions which C23 no longer supports. Is there
> > any effort and/or interest in fixing this portability problem in Bash?
>
> I believe this was done a few months ago on the devel branch.
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?h=devel&id=a61ffa78ede6df4d1127fddd2e8a1a77a7186ea1

Oh, thanks, I was looking at the wrong branch.

However, Bash's devel branch still has old-style function definitions 
and therefore won't compile with a strict C23 compiler. For example, 
get_variable_value in variables.c is old-style. I assume there would be 
interest in fixing remaining areas where Bash won't port to C23?