Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 01:54:27PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> But IMO this whole thing of trying to make this work on every compiler >> etc. just isn't worth it. >> >> Let's just start using C99 features, and if anyone's compiler breaks on >> something like CentOS 6 document that they'll need to tweak a flag >> somewhere. We already know that works for all the other C99 features we >> have, there seems to just be this one exception of the ancient GCC >> version in this particular case. > > Yeah, I definitely agree with this sentiment. +1, provided that we are not saying that "we will start using any random C99 features" without limit. I do appreciate the way the previous efforts were conducted, to start with small test balloons that can easily be backed out and leaving it there for sufficiently long time.
