Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:97415 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 24678 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2016 20:55:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Dec 2016 20:55:01 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 94.0.142.252 unknown Received: from [94.0.142.252] ([94.0.142.252:20648] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id BC/33-21185-4A1B1585 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:55:00 -0500 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net References: Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 20:54:56 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0 SeaMonkey/2.40 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 94.0.142.252 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) Hi, Dennis Clarke wrote: > This is entirely too soon. At the present moment neither of the PHP 7.0 > releases will compile clean on a strict POSIX environment. At all. The > version 5.6.x tree is perfectly stable and works out of the box without > an endless compile nightmare whereas 7.0.14 and 7.1.0 won't even > compile. I guess I need to file more bug reports and push through this > or the 5.6.x version will be dropped with no valid replacement that > works in a strict environment. Perhaps the gcc compiler is an absolute > requirement and if that is true then the code isn't acceptable to any > other compiler regardless if it is C99 compliant or otherwise. GCC is not a requirement. At the very least, PHP compiles on clang and MSVC, and I believe it works with some other compilers also. -- Andrea Faulds https://ajf.me/