Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76230 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 69278 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2014 11:44:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Jul 2014 11:44:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.200 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.200 imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.200] ([192.64.116.200:34828] helo=imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C8/49-26001-79736D35 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 07:44:24 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6EFEB00085; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 07:44:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap1.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap1.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id qh7ntIHgi642; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 07:44:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.15] (unknown [90.210.122.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 53527B0007B; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 07:44:31 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: <208010FD-8D4D-4C54-A162-45BCE01BCE78@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:44:28 +0100 Cc: David Soria Parra , internals@lists.php.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <90F5C50E-367C-4797-941C-CBBCF8D046F9@ajf.me> References: <208010FD-8D4D-4C54-A162-45BCE01BCE78@gmail.com> To: Huqiu Liao X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Thoughts on C version supported for PHP-Next From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 28 Jul 2014, at 12:41, Huqiu Liao wrote: > IMP, C89 is simple enough and reliable. Though it is old. it is wildly = supported. It is simple, reliable and widely-supported, sure, but it lacks certain = features that could be useful. In 2014, while not all compilers support = all of C99, most support it at least partially, and we don=92t need the = whole thing. For an example of something C99 has that C89 lacks, it is a pain to have = to redefine isnan() and isfinite() (the latter being particularly = difficult) when doing floating-point math. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/