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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] C89 vs. C99
From: dclarke@blastwave.org (Dennis Clarke)

On 11/13/2016 02:20 PM, Anatol Belski wrote:
> moving to C99, we enable a set of new features not available with
 > the ANSI C, that we need to internalize and accept.

Just following up here.

Perhaps it was not a good idea to fire a bug report at 7.0.14RC1 but
what is done is done. It can always be marked "not a bug" or "yes we
know" at this time. For now I will drop down to using cc and a set of
more permissive CFLAGS which allow for some extensions and transitive
code elements. The configure stage seems fine thus far and a compile is
running.

Merely as a side note, I know that the folks inside Oracle are slowly
dropping support for their own operating system Solaris 10. This is
evidence in the fact that Oracle won't release MySQL 5.7 or the MySQL
cluster software for Solaris 10 at all. Despite the fact that Sol 10
is well supported for many more years to come and most of their
customer base is on it still.  However, the sources of major software
elements such as PHP *should* compile clean within such a POSIX
environment using the tools provided.

I am a big big fan of GCC also. Have been for 20 years. It just isn't a
really tightly conforming compiler ( yet ) and the optimization within
the sparc servers is still best done with Oracle Studio tools.

Dennis Clarke