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Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 07:13:04 -0600
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To: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>, 
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Thoughts on C version supported for PHP-Next
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 5:01 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 8, 2015 4:42 AM, "Christoph Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Nikita Popov wrote:
>>
>> > [...] What's our current minimum required vc version?
>>
>> As of PHP 5.5 at least VC11 (Visual Studio 2012) is required for Windows
>> builds.  The currently available snapshots of master are also built with
>> VC11[1].
>
> We are in the process of testing latest or better said the upcoming next
> version of VC.
>
> However it is a long process. We use a couple of libs to test c99 support.
>
> What could be amazingly helpful, not only for VC, is some sample codes
> using what we are most likely to use intensively from c99. It will allow is
> to valid them against various compilers as well as clearly define what we
> can support in the CS, all compilers we are likely to support for 7,
> including VC, ICC or older GCC.
>
> Cheers,

I am quite sure we would use these features:

  - compound literals (this would allow for zend_string* at compile time)
  - designated initializers

I'll work on some code examples later today if someone hasn't beaten
me to it by then.