On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Paul Eggert wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote: > > In general gnulib is still targeting c89 right? > > BTW, when should we update that requirement? > > Now is a good time. As far as I know, no Gnulib-using application still > requires porting to C89-only platforms. Although we still may have some issues > with old C libraries that support C89 but not C99 behavior, we no longer need > to worry about porting to C89-only compilers. In other words, all platforms > that we care about now have a compiler available that supports significant C99 > features (even if it does not support full C99).
Sad to hear gnulib doesn't care about C89. UnixWare (a currently shipping product) has a C89 compiler. I was hoping to find time to upstream my patch to get UnixWare farther along with gnulib but I guess it's wasted time now. Such is life with long lived products. > With that in mind, I propose (and have installed) the attached patch to try to > document the current situation more accurately. Comments and further patches > are welcome. > -- Tim Rice Multitalents t...@multitalents.net
