On 06/25/2013 01:36 PM, james wrote: > On 25/06/2013 05:16, Tom Lane wrote: >> It might be time to reconsider whether we should move the baseline >> portability requirement up to C99. > > My understanding was that you picked up a lot of users when the Win32 > port became useful. While you can build with msys, I would think that > leaving Microsoft's tooling behind would be a mistake, and as far as I > am aware they have said that they are supporting C++11 but not bothering > with C99.
In practice, a lot of what we'd want from C99 is part of C++11 (and older) anyway. If MSVC will permit the use of such features in C where they correspond to similar features in C++ then that'd be OK. Otherwise I guess it'd be another reason to give in and move to a C++ subset. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
