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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:17:18 -0800
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From: sriram.natarajan@gmail.com (Sriram Natarajan)



Pierre Joye wrote:
> 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) :)
>
>   
This seems to be the best solution. I very much agree.

- Sriram