Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76237 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 37570 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2014 20:13:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Jul 2014 20:13:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; 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] ([192.64.116.200:43365] helo=imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id FA/51-29900-CEEA6D35 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:13:33 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4253EB0008B; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:13:42 -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 HGx-xrcvBvLm; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:13:41 -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 A7DEDB00085; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:13:39 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:13:36 +0100 Cc: Derick Rethans , Nikita Popov , Julien Pauli , PHP Internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: <71A78449-A62C-400D-A01F-5668930A7BED@ajf.me> To: Dmitry Stogov 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 20:14, Dmitry Stogov wrote: > The real problem, that it'll break compatibility with old uncommon = compilers. > I'm not sure if new MSVC versions support it, but the one I use - does = not. >=20 > Breaking something without a real reason is not a good move. While C99 itself would, I would again argue that we don=92t need to use = the whole thing. Are there any compilers out there which people use to = compile PHP that do not support declarations between statements? -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/