[Geany-Devel] Lets move to C99

[Matthew Brush]

On 13-08-16 01:28 AM, Frank Lanitz wrote:
> Am 2013-08-16 10:21, schrieb Matthew Brush:
>> 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).
>
> There were some real old plattforms to keep on supporting running a gcc
> 2.9x ... IIRC Solaris 9.
>
> We have to check the *x-world beside of Linux I think here.
>

IMO, if a platform can't support compiling C99 code using any type of 
pre-historic GCC that supports it, then its package maintainers deserve 
to (and likely do already) use cross-compilation and it's users won't 
care either way.

P.S. I'm not a package maintainer for pre-historic distro, so please 
flame me if I pissed you off.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush