On 2021-11-16 at 14:54:32, Jeff King wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately, we cannot do this without some sort of patch because our
CI will be broken.  I'm fine if we want to drop GCC 4.8, but we need to
be explicit about that or we need to add flags to make it work.  We also
need at least something to make Windows work.  Dscho will not be happy
if we just leave it broken.

So I think some version of this patch or something similar needs to be
adopted.  I'll try to get a v3 out relatively soon that fixes these
issues and drops -std=gnu99 from CFLAGS, which seems to be the approach
people are most desirous of.
-- 
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA