On Jan 22, 2010, at 9:06 AM, Pierre Joye wrote: >> ps. I think it might be beneficial for PHP at large to depend more on >> C99 as the types are needed in multiple places and other C99 features >> might be interesting ... > The main problem is gcc thinking that adding random c99 features to > default is a good thing to do.
Which we can completely blast by passing -std=c89 or -ansi, the lowest common denominator of ANSI C. That should disable something like 95% of gcc's extensions. If we wanted to go for never using ANYTHING gcc-specific (except explicitly, as in __attribute__), we could add -pedantic. It'd probably take days just to make things build again, though; I just tried "make EXTRA_CFLAGS=-ansi" and couldn't build a single file (zend_alloc.h uses "static inline", a GNU extension in C89 mode). > However, we could as well define these types on demand using the > configure script. That will solve 99% of the resons why poeple use > stdint.h. IMHO, that's a pretty good solution. -- Gwynne -- PHP CVS Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
