On 29.01.2010, at 13:32, Pierre Joye wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Alexey Zakhlestin <indey...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> As far as I remember, it was decided that C99 is ok for php6.
> 
> I can't remember any decision about C99.

I remember some talk with andrei on irc… I guess we never wrote that down

> 
>> Anyway, we probably need to compose some table on what compilers have 
>> limited (and how limited) support for c99.
>> Then we can objectively decide if we can leave those aside
> 
> That's not a solution, or we kill solaris, HPUX, windows, etc.
> support. GCC does a very bad job here by enabling part of C99 by
> default and breaking the other half of the specs. Also C99 is pretty
> much a bastarized version of C++ in an incompatible way. The price to
> accept C99 is too high, especially when all we use (in 99.99999% of
> what the usages) is stdint/stdbool.
> 
> Simply detect and define them at configure time will kill the need to
> use c99 and keeps us on the good/right side (what I do on win for
> example,easy) :)

you forgot about C++-style comments :)
Does Visual Studio support none of C99? I thought recent versions had partial 
support
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