Re: master 37889523278: Add new `swap` macro and use it

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 01:32:38 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 
> >> Further proving my point, neither variant of typeof compiles with Sun C 
> >> 5.8, a C99 compiler that does presently produce working Emacs builds.
> >
> > Which system configuration uses this compiler?  When was that compiler 
> > released?  Are there newer versions of that compiler that do support one 
> > of these keywords?
> >
> 
> Sun C 5.8 is part of Sun Studio 11, which was released in 2005.  Sun 
> Studio 11 is an (optional) extension package for Solaris 10 / SunOS 
> 5.10... on which GCC (3.4.3) is installed by default.
> 
> Sun C 5.9, part of Sun Studio 12 (which is likewise an optional extension 
> package for that same operating system), released in 2007, supports the 
> typeof operator.

Thanks.  Given this information, I don't see why we should be bothered
with the deficiencies of Sun C 5.8.