Hi,

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 09:32:35AM +0200, Steffan Karger wrote:
> MSVC 2015 claims to support C99 now (took them 16 years!), and it
> should at least support %zu (which is part of C99).  Shouldn't we just
> move (at least the master branch) to C99?  Or are there good reasons
> to keep punishing ourselves with having to support C89?

Well, I'd assume that %zu is more a libc thing (as printf() format parsing
happens at runtime) than what the C compiler understands - and if, say, 
Win7 libc.dll (or however it's called) doesn't grok %zu, we can't use 
it...

This is why I was asking what breaks exactly :-)

gert
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