Re: support for pre-C99 compilers
Sam Steingold <[email protected]>
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> * Bruno Haible <[email protected]> [2017-10-19 01:12:48 +0200]: > >> > Fix build failure with pre-C99 compilers (regression from 2008-10-29). >> >> I thought we decided to require C99? > > Yes, a couple of months ago I too thought we would lose no porting targets > by assuming C99 or better. But I had forgotten about IRIX 6.5, where the > only available compiler for the 'o32' ABI is cc (at least on the machine > I have access to), and this cc does not grok statements after declarations. https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm does not have any IRIX. If you give them IRIX, you might have gcc on it... > Anyway, this pre-C99 support is not a lot of trouble. This prevents us from dumping varbrace, so it's kinda big deal. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on darwin Ns 10.3.1504 http://steingoldpsychology.com http://www.childpsy.net https://ffii.org http://www.memritv.org http://islamexposedonline.com Whether pronounced "leenooks" or "line-uks", it's better than Windows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ clisp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clisp-devel