From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Requiring C11 breaks build with GCC 4.6.2 on Windows XP
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:45:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkRi-usEmqzekHFBnE5WZn4WD+_Ob7rc_NEGO9NwhzTWTQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c64b7877-52cc-2e70-897c-6de69cb4adc7@cs.ucla.edu>
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Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> schrieb am Di., 13. Juni 2017 um 22:37 Uhr:
> 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.
>
I'm not opposed to removing it if you think it causes more problems than it
solves. My intention was to give users of pre-C99 compilers a better error
message instead of something like "header stdbool.h not found", but maybe
that's not necessary.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-13 7:44 Requiring C11 breaks build with GCC 4.6.2 on Windows XP martin rudalics
2017-06-13 7:48 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-06-13 7:55 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-06-13 8:14 ` martin rudalics
2017-06-13 15:03 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-06-13 20:37 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-15 12:45 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2017-06-15 17:35 ` Paul Eggert
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