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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:32:25 +0100
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To: Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets@gmail.com>
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From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets@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.

> 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) :)

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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