I love that step by step approach with a plan for a known endpoint that
you display in your thinking. I have tried modifying code from one
regime to another and have learned that it can consume time and effort
with questionable reward - all for the sake of being 'up-to-date'.
Keep up the good work - I watch from a distance
Mike H (Australia)
On 21/9/22 02:54, bch via curl-library wrote:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 08:06 Emil Engler via curl-library
<curl-library@lists.haxx.se> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 11:24:37AM +0200, Daniel Stenberg via
curl-library wrote:
> I am not entirely convinced we want to go all-in and totally
crazy on all
> these fronts immediately, and I think having an idea what we
want in terms
> of code style is a good idea to have thought about before the
flood gates
> open.
While I'm not against a switch to C99, I consider most of the features
introduced by it, to put it mildly, useless. Sure, some things of it
are very useful and cannot be achieved by ease in C89, such as
<stdint.h> and variadic macros, but most of the other features,
such as
<stdbool.h> and snprintf(3) can be implemeneted in C89 fairly easy and
given the fact that curl already does that, as it has its own boolean
type and printf(3)-functions, it's questionable if we should truly
favor
them to the cost of a slightly worser portability.
A thing we could also do, would be to use C89 with GNU C Extensions
(GNU89), but only make use of the GNU Extensions, which are also
part of
the C99 standard,
C89 w long long apparently, and does compile cleanly (without
warnings) on C99, according to a dev I talked to. The biggest issue
(or "a big" issue) with that standard is (lack of) file locking, but
that'd be curls C89 case as well.
-bch
as they have a big intersection with each other. With
this approach, we can make use of certain C99 features without
dropping
portability for certain gcc versions. If I remember correctly, SQLite
does exactly this.
--Emil
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