Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] git-compat-util: add a test balloon for C99 support

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 16, 2021, 14:54 UTC
Message-ID: <YZPGKHYE/9km1rH5@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <211116.86pmr0p82k.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 01:54:27PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> But IMO this whole thing of trying to make this work on every compiler
> etc. just isn't worth it.
> 
> Let's just start using C99 features, and if anyone's compiler breaks on
> something like CentOS 6 document that they'll need to tweak a flag
> somewhere. We already know that works for all the other C99 features we
> have, there seems to just be this one exception of the ancient GCC
> version in this particular case.

Yeah, I definitely agree with this sentiment.

-Peff

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