From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 20:29:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tufp7dae.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1b5bffd-38c5-42f1-2722-bdca8bfa4e63@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Fri, 3 Dec 2021 08:46:23 -0800)
> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 08:46:23 -0800
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>
> 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? They
are proprietary compilers on proprietary OSes.
> Conforming to the C standard doesn't affect behavior here (it possibly
> doesn't even change the machine code, though I didn't check this) so I
> considered the change to be a safe prophylactic.
Famous last words.
Please always raise the issue on the list before installing such
non-trivial changes on the release branch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-03 18:29 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 [this message]
2021-12-03 19:42 ` Paul Eggert
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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