From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CAED1F97E for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2018 19:44:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728341AbeJFCo0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2018 22:44:26 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:43682 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1728139AbeJFCo0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2018 22:44:26 -0400 Received: (qmail 25822 invoked by uid 109); 5 Oct 2018 19:44:15 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with SMTP; Fri, 05 Oct 2018 19:44:15 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 15443 invoked by uid 111); 5 Oct 2018 19:43:30 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) SMTP; Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:43:30 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:44:13 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 15:44:13 -0400 From: Jeff King To: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason Cc: =?utf-8?B?UmVuw6k=?= Scharfe , Derrick Stolee , Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Derrick Stolee Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/16] commit-reach: make can_all_from_reach... linear Message-ID: <20181005194412.GA19689@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <816821eec9ba476ccdfbfdf6e3cdd3619743ea2e.1531746012.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> <223b14f7-213f-4d22-4776-22dcfd1806c2@web.de> <7b95417a-c8fb-4f1e-cb09-c36804a3a4d0@web.de> <20181005165157.GC11254@sigill.intra.peff.net> <878t3cgqd2.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> <20181005192816.GE17482@sigill.intra.peff.net> <877eiwgoxy.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <877eiwgoxy.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 09:42:49PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > that I imagine will create a lot of new problems. (We're just now > > allowing C99 -- I don't even want to think about what kind of compiler > > issues we'll run into on antique systems trying to use C++). > > ...But just on this point: I was under the impression that this problem > was way easier with C++. I.e. reason we're just now using C99 for > portable C projects is because Microsoft for years refused to put any > effort into updating their compiler to support newer C versions, while > keeping up-to-date with C++, and that this has only recently started > changing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99#Implementations > > Maybe there was some other popular vendor of C/C++ compilers that had > the inverse of that story, but I'm not aware of any. I'd worry about what the C++ story is on AIX, etc. -Peff