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C99 (Was: Re: Freeing struct lock_file?)

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brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Apr 4, 2015, 19:04 UTC
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On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 08:24:43PM -0400, David Turner wrote:
> But I can see why git wouldn't want to depend on that behavior. C11 has
> a way to do this safely, but AIUI, git doesn't want to move to C99 let
> alone C11.  So I guess this will just have to remain the way it is.

I would really like to move to at least C99. However, MSVC bundles a C89 compiler and a C++ compiler, but Microsoft steadfastly refuses to bundle an actual C99 compiler, and Git doesn't even come close to compiling as C++. Newer versions of MSVC (2013 and newer) support enough of the features, though, that it might be possible.

So it isn't as much of a "we don't want to move to C99" as much as "we aren't yet willing to drop support for older versions of MSVC". I don't use Windows, so I'm happy to drop support for MSVC 2012 and older, but others may have different opinions.

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Message 6 of 9 in “Freeing struct lock_file?”
  1. David TurnerApr 3, 2015
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 3, 2015
  3. David TurnerApr 4, 2015
  4. Torsten BögershausenApr 4, 2015
  5. David TurnerApr 6, 2015
  6. C99 (Was: Re: Freeing struct lock_file?)brian m. carlson, Apr 4, 2015
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 4, 2015
  8. brian m. carlsonApr 4, 2015
  9. David TurnerApr 7, 2015

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