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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: Emacs Development <Emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why named structs and unions? C11 supports anonymous structs and unions
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:37:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f21cc2da-a442-01ac-7896-c3982c8b10a3@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65cfb499-1ef2-b12f-bc12-4063d879d33d@dancol.org>

On 02/12/2018 12:22 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> I'd definitely like to move to C11 and anonymous inner structures 
> eventually though.

Likewise. It's merely a matter of timing. Emacs didn't start assuming 
C99 until 15 years later, in 2014 (see Bug#17487). C11 is less of a lift 
than C99 was, so I think Emacs can start assuming C11 well before 2025, 
which would be the corresponding delay for the newer version.




  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-12 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-12  3:14 Why named structs and unions? C11 supports anonymous structs and unions Daniel Colascione
2018-02-12  3:56 ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-12  4:09   ` Daniel Colascione
2018-02-12  7:28     ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-12 20:22       ` Daniel Colascione
2018-02-12 20:37         ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-02-12 22:18     ` Richard Stallman
2018-02-12 22:18     ` Richard Stallman

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