Hi Bram and all, On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 12:43:23 +0200 Bram Moolenaar <b...@moolenaar.net> 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 much work to support it, that was the > choice. > > Now that we are adding checks for C89 compliance, it turns out that we > already are using some C99 features, such as the "long long" type. > Also, many libraries produce warnings when enforcing C89. That means > using C89 is starting to become a hassle. So, the question comes up: is > it still worth it? > > If you CANNOT build Vim with a C99 compiler, please speak up! > If I don't hear about such cases, I think we are better off using C99 as > the standard. > > Note that if we go with C99, we still need to decide what features we > will actually use, since C99 compliance was lacking for quite a while > (esp. in MS-Visual C). That's not going to make this easier. > +1 for C99 from me, but I am using recent Linux systems mostly. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris/etc. Facts - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/ He who reinvents the wheel will likely design a square wheel and spend a year trying to figure out why it doesn’t work properly. — Nadav Har’El, http://www.shlomifish.org/humour.html Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
