From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: c99 support Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 05:37:52 +0300 Message-ID: <83o9g0ucxr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878t7548ta.fsf@pobox.com> <83po0htihm.fsf@gnu.org> <874lht4683.fsf@pobox.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529807745 402 195.159.176.226 (24 Jun 2018 02:35:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 02:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 24 04:35:40 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-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 1fWusO-0008RZ-6s for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2018 04:35:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40324 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWuuT-0007Xy-I6 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:37:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34814) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWuuO-0007Xh-HA for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:37:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWuuL-0001D6-E5 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:37:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49136) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWuuL-0001D0-9u; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:37:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3869 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fWuuK-0006Wy-6d; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:37:41 -0400 In-reply-to: <874lht4683.fsf@pobox.com> (message from Andy Wingo on Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:07:24 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:19557 gmane.lisp.guile.user:14655 Archived-At: > From: Andy Wingo > Cc: guile-users@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:07:24 +0200 > > > MS-Windows (MinGW) doesn't have a C99 compliant C library, although > > quite a few of what's needed is present. > > Hard to say :) I think my questions are limited to, in decreasing order > of importance: > > * Is there any system that we target that doesn't have C99 stdint.h > and stddef.h ? > > * Is there any system that we target that doesn't support C99 inline > functions? > > * C99 mixed decls and statements? > > * C99 one-line comments (// foo) ? > > * C99 compound literals? ((struct x) { 1, 2 }) ? > > * stdbool.h All of the above is available with reasonably recent versions of MinGW. > I assume MinGW uses GCC. What version? I see that the version 6 series > is available on mingw.org. Current versions are 6 and 7, I have 5.3 installed on one of my machines. All of them support what you mentioned.