From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Requiring C11 breaks build with GCC 4.6.2 on Windows XP Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:37:54 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <593F97CE.6080005@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497386544 15743 195.159.176.226 (13 Jun 2017 20:42:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 20:42:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.0 To: Philipp Stephani , martin rudalics , emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 13 22:42:20 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKsdn-0003pH-RR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 22:42:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45158 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKsdt-0007pu-3b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:42:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42541) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKsZe-0004fu-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:38:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKsZb-0007VQ-Hc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:38:02 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:48332) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKsZb-0007Uj-Cc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:37:59 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 314D41600D2; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:37:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id JK3ILvNaPHWW; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8832C1600EA; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:37:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id Ofx3wyVd4t13; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2BFC21600D2; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:37:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215605 Archived-At: Why is this version test needed at all? What problem does it fix? If it does not fix a significant problem, I would rather remove it. I've run into too many compilers that support C well enough but do not define __STDC_VERSION__ to an "approved" value.