Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Wow, that sounds horribly broken. > > Yes, but it's also working as designed :) We're erroring because the C > library headers on the OS aren't C99-compliant. That it would apply to > only git.git's sources was only ever wishful thinking. No, C library supporting only C11 is perfectly fine. On such a system, the compiler shouldn't even support -std=gnu99. That is what I consider broken.