On 22/08/2018 14:02, Andres Freund wrote: > If we agree on that, I'm going to propose a patch that includes: > - relevant cleanups to configure > - adapts sources.sgml to refer to C99 instead of C89 > - add some trivial conversions to for(int i;;) and struct initializers, > so the relevant old animals fail > - adds a configure check to enable errors with vla usage (-Werror=vla)
sounds good > - do we want to make declarations at arbitrary points errors? It's > already a warning currently. While there are legitimate criticisms, it's a standard feature in C, C++, and many other languages, so I don't see what we'd gain by fighting it. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
