From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Microsoft's C language policy (was: [PATCH 0/1] Add a test balloon for C99)
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:37:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YaanjQgqb6riZGh8@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <211130.86o861cqnu.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
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On 2021-11-30 at 20:43:15, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> I hadn't seen that blog post before I'd read it when going over your
> series. I'd assumed that Microsoft was just dragging their feed on C
> language support, but that post indicates (from what seems to be as
> official of a source as anyone's going to get) that they're intending to
> not support C at all, but just some pseudo-C that happens to be a
> convenient subset of C++.
>
> However that post is from 2012, and you indicate that they've since
> added (full?) support for C11 and C17.
>
> So is this "policy" of supporting some arbitrary subset of C++ at all
> current as far as MSVC today goes?
No, it is not. MSVC should have full C11 and C17 support, at least
according to the documentation I've seen. They seem to have changed
their mind (maybe the Windows kernel developers complained).
--
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA
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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
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 [this message]
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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