From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] git-compat-util: add a test balloon for C99 support
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 09:54:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YZPGKHYE/9km1rH5@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <211116.86pmr0p82k.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 01:54:27PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> But IMO this whole thing of trying to make this work on every compiler
> etc. just isn't worth it.
>
> Let's just start using C99 features, and if anyone's compiler breaks on
> something like CentOS 6 document that they'll need to tweak a flag
> somewhere. We already know that works for all the other C99 features we
> have, there seems to just be this one exception of the ancient GCC
> version in this particular case.
Yeah, I definitely agree with this sentiment.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-16 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-14 21:24 [PATCH 0/1] Add a test balloon for C99 brian m. carlson
2021-11-14 21:24 ` [PATCH 1/1] git-compat-util: add a test balloon for C99 support brian m. carlson
2021-11-15 1:14 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-15 1:54 ` brian m. carlson
2021-11-15 3:16 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-16 1:53 ` brian m. carlson
2021-11-22 11:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-11-14 21:43 ` [PATCH 0/1] Add a test balloon for C99 brian m. carlson
2021-11-15 7:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-15 22:41 ` brian m. carlson
2021-11-16 19:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-17 1:51 ` brian m. carlson
2021-11-16 2:12 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] Add a test balloon for C99 support brian m. carlson
2021-11-16 2:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] git-compat-util: add " brian m. carlson
2021-11-16 12:19 ` Jeff King
2021-11-16 12:54 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-16 14:54 ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-11-17 2:53 ` brian m. carlson
2021-11-17 3:01 ` Jeff King
2021-11-17 23:18 ` brian m. carlson
2021-11-17 23:45 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-11-18 2:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-18 19:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-17 8:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-16 19:44 ` Phillip Wood
2021-11-17 1:44 ` brian m. carlson
2021-11-17 2:58 ` Jeff King
2021-11-30 20:43 ` Microsoft's C language policy (was: [PATCH 0/1] Add a test balloon for C99) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-30 22:37 ` brian m. carlson
2021-12-01 1:40 ` [PATCH v3 0/1] Add a test balloon for C99 support brian m. carlson
2021-12-01 1:40 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] git-compat-util: add " brian m. carlson
2021-12-02 17:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
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