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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: sergiodj@redhat.com, tom@tromey.com, bruno@clisp.org,
	eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib@gnu.org,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: hierarchical projects with configure scripts
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 06:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8336ut3dpm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lf9sqft.fsf@tromey.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Sat, 01	Sep 2018 00:05:26 -0600)

> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,  Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>,  Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,  bug-gnulib@gnu.org,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:05:26 -0600
> 
> Sergio> I don't know if just requiring C99 or later would be enough to solve
> Sergio> this problem, but it's something to consider for GDB, I think.
> 
> I personally think it would be fine -- C99 is nearly 20 years old now,

A nit: it should be okay to require C99 for the compiler, but we
should not require that for the library (including header files),
because MinGW, for example, uses a C99-compliant GCC, but the headers
and the function from the standard C library are those from Windows,
which are not 100% C99.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-01  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <2805333.pL1CPYTu1R@omega>
     [not found]   ` <87y3cokaai.fsf@redhat.com>
     [not found]     ` <2373646.KA5HVAegPz@omega>
2018-08-30  3:18       ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2018-08-31 20:38         ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-01  0:26           ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2018-09-01  6:05             ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-01  6:59               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-09-01  7:42                 ` Paul Eggert

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