[Geany-Devel] Lets move to C99

Matthew Brush mbrush at xxxxx
Fri Aug 16 08:21:46 UTC 2013


On 13-08-16 01:18 AM, Frank Lanitz wrote:
> Am 2013-08-16 08:36, schrieb Lex Trotman:
>> In general I don't see any point in keeping compatibility with a standard
>> as old as C89, what target (that we support) still needs that?
>
>
> IIRC this was due to on Solaris system and others C99 was not fully
> supported. Honestly I have no clue what's the current status at this as
> with upgrading Gtk-dependency in past we might have lost the C89-compat.
> already.
>

AFAIK we and GTK+ still conform to strict C89 including recent GTK+3 
updates, but I think C99 support in GCC (our main targeted compiler) is 
quite robust for a long time on all targets where Geany is used 
(presumably).

Cheers,
Matthew Brush



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