Funny. Just two weeks ago I was helping someone who discovered a compiler that doesn't support the new relaxed variable declaration rules. I think it was on Windows. Maybe this move is a little too aggressively deprecating older Windows compilers?
On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > On 2016-06-03 23:11, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >> PEP 7 requires CPython to use C code conforming to the venerable C89 >> standard. Traditionally, we've been stuck with C89 due to poor C support >> in MSVC. However, MSVC 2013 and 2015 implement the key features of C99. >> C99 does not offer anything earth-shattering; here are the features I >> think we'd find most interesting: >> - Variable declarations can be on any line: removes possibly the most >> annoying limitation of C89. >> - Inline functions: We can make Py_DECREF and Py_INCREF inline functions >> rather than unpleasant macros. >> - C++-style line comments: Not an killer feature but commonly used. >> - Booleans >> In summary, some niceties that would make CPython hacking a little more >> fun. >> >> So, what say you to updating PEP 7 to allow C99 features for Python 3.6 >> (in so much as GCC and MSVC support them)? > > +1 > > - We never officially deprecated C89 platforms withou 64 bit integers in > PEP 7. Victor's changes to pytime.h implies support for uint64_t and > int64_t. C99 has mandatory long long int support. > > - If we also drop Solaris Studio C compiler support, we can replace > header guards (e.g. #ifndef Py_PYTHON_H) with #pragma once > > Christian > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
