Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH 0/1] Fix spurious array bounds warnings on OpenBSD

[John Cowan]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:

I still think it's much better to declare that CHICKEN requires a C99
compatible compiler, and remove the conditional, using [] always.

I strongly agree.  Chicken's build system already makes fairly strong assumptions about the compiler: it works with modern versions of gcc or with clang, not with Joe's Own C Compiler.  There is no reason not to do C99 things, especially when they express meaning better and are illegal in C89 for no good reason.

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