From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 11:42:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18c9aeb7-3b9e-3e94-a24b-b52ea10ce75d@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tufp7dae.fsf@gnu.org>
On 12/3/21 10:29, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> What I experienced was a ton of diagnostics with both the Oracle Solaris
>> and the IBM AIX C compilers, which made it difficult for me to see the
>> real problems on those platforms (of which there were some).
> Any reason why we should be concerned about these two platforms?
Emacs has run on Solaris and AIX for decades, these platforms are stable
and are supported by Oracle and IBM respectively, and there's very
little trouble keeping Emacs working on these platforms.
And it's not just these two platforms. My bigger motivation for this
particular change was that the old code violates a constraint specified
by the C standard. Even though the old code works on GCC, Clang and
MSVC, there's a reasonable chance it won't work on less-commonly-used
compilers and there's little point to taking that risk when the fix is
so simple.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-03 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-03 8:16 emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 16:46 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-03 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 19:42 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2021-12-03 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 23:32 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-04 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-04 10:47 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-04 11:24 ` Po Lu
2021-12-04 0:37 ` Po Lu
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