On 24/11/2022 5:41 am, Flavio Cruz wrote:
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 11:51:36AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Flavio Cruz, le mer. 23 nov. 2022 00:10:10 -0500, a ecrit:
Latest GCC will pick up gnu17 by default but gnu11 will be better
supported with older compilers.
Mmm, but why explicitly requesting gnu11 then? Latest GCC will be fine
with using gnu17, and older GCC will be fine with using whatever it
supports.
I would like to modernize some parts of the mig code (for example, use
stdbool.h instead of setting up our own boolean type). For this, gnu99
would be enough but I thought gnu11 would be fine since it has been
around
for some time.
FWIW, From experience with other code using the -std=*11 options:
This will not just downgrade the specification on latest compilers, but
at times disable newer code safety checks. Making some types of bugs
more difficult to detect.
/2c
HTH
AYJ
