From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 21:53:43 GMT
Subject: Re: v2.35.0 DEVELOPER=1 regression
Message-ID: <xmqqk0f29e6w.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <220114.8635lqrqci.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

>> Wow, that sounds horribly broken.
>
> Yes, but it's also working as designed :) We're erroring because the C
> library headers on the OS aren't C99-compliant. That it would apply to
> only git.git's sources was only ever wishful thinking.

No, C library supporting only C11 is perfectly fine.  On such a
system, the compiler shouldn't even support -std=gnu99.  That is
what I consider broken.