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Subject: Thoughts on C version supported for PHP-Next
From: jpauli@php.net (Julien Pauli)

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Hey !

Just a quick word to launch the debate.
Disclamer : This is not a C vs C++ talk, thank you :-)

We nowadays support C89 officially . It is very stable and well implemented
in almost every compiler nowadays, but it is old and lack some features we
could benefit from.

Why not take PHP-Next step to support a more recent version ?
Even C99 would be allright and C11 would be super cool (though pretty
recent).

I know we support lots of compilers (even if that's not really documented),
and some of them could fail at supporting some C versions.

However, as PHP-Next is a big step in modernizing PHP, why not have a
discussion about the C versions our souce code base should support ?

Just to say, perhaps it's a dead and debate because of a big blocker point.

Julien.Pauli

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