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Assume C99 or later in trunk |
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Tue, 13 May 2014 18:11:46 -0700 |
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For some time I have ported Emacs to C89 whenever developers
inadvertently change the mainline C code to use features like
declarations-after-statements that C89 prohibits. It's time for me to
stop doing this job, as it's no longer useful. As far as I know, no
current Emacs target lacks a compiler that supports the relevant
features. GCC has supported the features for many years, even decades,
and key GNU packages such as Coreutils have assumed them for quite some
time.
To help move this along and to simplify maintenance a bit, I would like
to install the attached patches into the trunk. We don't need wholesale
changes to rewrite Emacs's C code to use C99 features, but on the other
hand we no longer need to keep porting to C89 and these minimal changes
will help remind us of that.
The first attached patch is the main one. The second patch is
automatically generated by 'admin/merge-gnulib'.
c99.diff
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c99-auto.diff
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