Re: [PATCH] Remove more gcc extension usage.
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- Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
- Date
- Jul 10, 2006, 07:35 UTC
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- <20060710073532.GA22573@lug-owl.de>
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- <1152514328.3504.58.camel@dv>
On Mon, 2006-07-10 02:52:08 -0400, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 08:25 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-07-10 02:22:03 -0400, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote: > > > This means that the Sun compiler has almost all c99 features used by git > > > with just a little exception (initializers). I think it's fair that we > > > fix this incompatibility. It's very very minor compared to what "gcc > > > -std=c89 -pedantic" would have required. > > ^^^^^^^^ > > You're kidding, aren't you?
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> We can satisfy the Sun's compiler and yet retain flexible arrays and > other c99 goodies. > > Maybe I'm missing your point (or you joke).
Why should we jump through the hoops to support an obsolete standard because proprietary compilers don't stand today's standards?
MfG, JBG
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