Re: Is ANSI C support still needed?

David Demelier wrote: > On Sun, 2018-04-15 at 12:43 +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > For a long time Vim code was made to be compiled with ANSI C (also > > known > > as C89 and ISO C90). This means it can also be compiled on very old > > systems. And since it wasn't too much work to support

Re: Is ANSI C support still needed?

On Sun, 2018-04-15 at 12:43 +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > For a long time Vim code was made to be compiled with ANSI C (also > known > as C89 and ISO C90). This means it can also be compiled on very old > systems. And since it wasn't too much work to support it, that was > the > choice. > C99

Re: Is ANSI C support still needed?

Hi Bram and all, On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 12:43:23 +0200 Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Hello Vimmers, > > For a long time Vim code was made to be compiled with ANSI C (also known > as C89 and ISO C90). This means it can also be compiled on very old > systems. And since it wasn't too

Is ANSI C support still needed?

Hello Vimmers, For a long time Vim code was made to be compiled with ANSI C (also known as C89 and ISO C90). This means it can also be compiled on very old systems. And since it wasn't too much work to support it, that was the choice. Now that we are adding checks for C89 compliance, it turns