Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:87074
Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm
Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 74.125.82.50 as permitted sender)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Sender: kalle.php@gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <51968444076E444C985BBB68C11B67BE@pc1>
References: <CAMUwpuRJVmWwAMMdzAeoec=tvgkW1L++jxhDKjKbWvQNh5C7JQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAF+90c_HUkUQes2vt9x07+d7JMpt99DtEo9b9pRD_YQj6vF6TA@mail.gmail.com>
	<FCDF6A43-3935-4F1D-AC31-41BE47F4BAD2@ajf.me>
	<alpine.DEB.2.11.1407281459350.3793@whisky.home.derickrethans.nl>
	<71A78449-A62C-400D-A01F-5668930A7BED@ajf.me>
	<CA+9eiLvhPzb5OykP1HQAk-uWVZeKE4FYra_+AwdvM1FiEsJWvw@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAEZPtU43380x58xUwPVnChru--JNe=jE_eZE9sM801JmeJjFNA@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAF+90c9U1LohZ=iruh1M+F9cxAcM4X_VEqDkai97=qiXtF2rkg@mail.gmail.com>
	<554BDC4B.2010808@gmx.de>
	<CAEZPtU7=NZ=-8JLghT9TFvgU18FWbhyXMCTcYTmuBPVrRA4sLA@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAFMT4Nop=1OSk9ruL679JacQURDf28hmcNFxXK5UWRFrg-_8gw@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAFMT4NrO2CO-QMGUeB4uifV8n+5WqzB9ibXwKK=fh2vm3duZVQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAEZPtU7LNOtNM2=YYAyf3PX2rqpiQJwjsX23ugRsY2diA4enNQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAFMT4Np4dopd2F5f12PB6Y3cXhf14g3gakRmk+6mzFDu2uKwuA@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAFMT4No=Pw9OymnNn19uj4c16=Dx=viVu5nuamxFQUjqi=rCXA@mail.gmail.com>
	<51968444076E444C985BBB68C11B67BE@pc1>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 17:02:57 +0200
Message-ID: <CAJW__o303tEdvdPQT051beySec-kAK5WFAtx=upRNcGodjZu=g@mail.gmail.com>
To: Matt Wilmas <php_lists@realplain.com>
Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net>, 
	Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>, 
	Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com>, 
	Anatol Belski <anatol.php@belski.net>, Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net>, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Thoughts on C version supported for PHP-Next
From: kalle@php.net (Kalle Sommer Nielsen)

Hi Matt

2015-07-08 17:00 GMT+02:00 Matt Wilmas <php_lists@realplain.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Levi Morrison"
> Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2015
>
>>> Again, this is a C11 feature. It is supported by clang, gcc and MSVC.
>>
>>
>> To clarify this a bit: they permit anonymous unions in C89 and C99
>> code (meaning you do not need to pass flags like -std=c11 to enable
>> it).
>
>
> What's the status on compiler requirements?  Are they, or will they be,
> higher?
>
> I'm going to take advantage of variadic macros (__VA_ARGS__) for better code
> generation with the parameter parsing implementation I'm finishing up, and
> it would be nice to not have to make two versions with a compiler check.
> e.g. for MSVC or GCC >= 3, but I don't know what else...

For 7.0, we are gonna focus on MSVC 2015 (VC14), although VC11 is also
known to work, we will do the 7.0+ releases with VC14 (that is
releasing later this month)



-- 
regards,

Kalle Sommer Nielsen
kalle@php.net