From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 09:35:37 +0200 Message-ID: <83ee6s7rg6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83bl1y85np.fsf@gnu.org> <83tufp7dae.fsf@gnu.org> <18c9aeb7-3b9e-3e94-a24b-b52ea10ce75d@cs.ucla.edu> <83lf1178zy.fsf@gnu.org> <0974b643-eec7-9bc5-f166-6897dab2c4b0@cs.ucla.edu> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38822"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 04 08:37:18 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mtPbh-0009ut-D7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2021 08:37:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52278 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mtPbg-0006rO-1B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2021 02:37:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51088) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mtPaO-000639-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2021 02:35:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=52210 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mtPaN-0004FB-HV; Sat, 04 Dec 2021 02:35:55 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=ZpdbvRUW0JgS1s2xMFRjIyTDipaj72M6krQfwKRW/Vo=; b=AhpO/M1s7yZH wZFSNalB6AyZtXogZSRdOz5DvILsnozLqZNOMi0/SKjDIzEu37r44Cqt8ZUoo/pjlZqzi8ahKbRvM AZ+SzmIgbAhlR3j+2EYGkZsx0F9t6P/f62kcDESKFmQ2ZY22a7vVslokI20rv5v+uA8VNMYpUKjSl wZt9pIX9thkykgFt6p/4EwjIJejdzcv8diPKsnF3SkJjmvSc6rLcQLIYbj8jtRnMAqjZX7knWU1Il v+94N0tV3CQWlFmUiqkOuCm2oAWAW5BGfml0IaOfIgbv7wZgM44v327AZWYu+/XhlcyjM4QL25rBo Od7vsemfVPFt8i2vkzxHpg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2798 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mtPaD-00083m-1f; Sat, 04 Dec 2021 02:35:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <0974b643-eec7-9bc5-f166-6897dab2c4b0@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Fri, 3 Dec 2021 15:32:34 -0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:280893 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 15:32:34 -0800 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > > Oh, I didn't know that Emacs builds with Microsoft compilers were no > longer supported. Live and learn.... We only support GCC and GNU Binutils for building Emacs on MS-Windows. (And the MS-DOS build never supported anything else.) > I suppose at some point any remaining references to MSVC could be > removed from the Emacs source, if only to prevent further confusion > in this area. Yes. > Anyway, the size-zero-array patch wasn't intended to be a mere cleanup > change; it was a fix to avoid a portability regression in Emacs 28 with > respect to this Standard C constraint. But if you'd rather move the > patch to the master branch, feel free; or let me know and I'll do it. Let's see if it actually causes some trouble on some system. If it does, I will ask you to revert it on the release branch. But in the future, please ask first.