Re: Any help needed?

[Hans Åberg]

> On 20 May 2018, at 10:49, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Le 20 mai 2018 à 10:33, Hans Åberg <address@hidden> a écrit :
>> 
>> 
>>> On 20 May 2018, at 09:42, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Le 20 mai 2018 à 00:09, Vlad Vladov <address@hidden> a écrit :
>>>> 
>>>> What is the oldest gcc we are planning on supporting?
>>> 
>>> I would say any version that supports ANSI C.
>> 
>> The current version C11?
> 
> That’s ISO C :)  I really meant the original ANSI C89
> standard that introduced prototypes and predates ISO C90
> (but in reality, they’re the same).
> 
> I don’t see why generated parsers would need more recent C features.

The ISO standards have been adopted by ANSI as well, cf. [1], though it does 
not say about C11. One reason to not use the older C versions is that they have 
been withdrawn, but it does not matter of course, if it also compiles with them.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_C