Re: GNU make release candidate 4.1.90 available for download

Paul Smith <[email protected]> Mon, 02 May 2016 13:08:10 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.make.devel
Organization	GNU's Not UNIX!
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On Sun, 2016-05-01 at 17:48 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Paul Smith wrote:
> >> > Of course, it's possible that the gnulib versions no longer support C89.
> > Yes, that's right, Gnulib stopped supporting K&R in 2003.
> 
> Oops, sorry, I now see that you wrote "C89" not "K&R". Gnulib still
> supports C89.

Yes GNU make dropped support for K&R C in version 3.81 (2006).  It still
(tries to) support C89.  This is hard to test, though, because I don't
have any systems that work without warnings/errors if I enable -std=c89
in GCC...