Re: Proposal: change requirement for tools from C89 to C99

Joerg Sonnenberger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.toolchain
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Am Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:14:49PM +0700 schrieb Robert Elz:
> I don't follow C standards.   What are the c99 features we'd
> want to use in tools that don't work in c89?

The most significant one is a %z support in printf(3) and friends. Things
like declaring auto variables just before use etc are also quite easy to
slip into code.

Joerg
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