Re: [PATCH] Remove more gcc extension usage.

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On Mon, 2006-07-10 02:52:08 -0400, Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 08:25 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-07-10 02:22:03 -0400, Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > This means that the Sun compiler has almost all c99 features used by git
> > > with just a little exception (initializers).  I think it's fair that we
> > > fix this incompatibility.  It's very very minor compared to what "gcc
> > > -std=c89 -pedantic" would have required.
> >   ^^^^^^^^
> > You're kidding, aren't you?
[...]
> We can satisfy the Sun's compiler and yet retain flexible arrays and
> other c99 goodies.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing your point (or you joke).

Why should we jump through the hoops to support an obsolete standard
because proprietary compilers don't stand today's standards?

MfG, JBG

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