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On 29.01.2010, at 13:32, Pierre Joye wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets@gmail.com> wrote: >> As far as I remember, it was decided that C99 is ok for php6. > > I can't remember any decision about C99. I remember some talk with andrei on irc… I guess we never wrote that down > >> Anyway, we probably need to compose some table on what compilers have limited (and how >> limited) support for c99. >> Then we can objectively decide if we can leave those aside > > That's not a solution, or we kill solaris, HPUX, windows, etc. > support. GCC does a very bad job here by enabling part of C99 by > default and breaking the other half of the specs. Also C99 is pretty > much a bastarized version of C++ in an incompatible way. The price to > accept C99 is too high, especially when all we use (in 99.99999% of > what the usages) is stdint/stdbool. > > Simply detect and define them at configure time will kill the need to > use c99 and keeps us on the good/right side (what I do on win for > example,easy) :) you forgot about C++-style comments :) Does Visual Studio support none of C99? I thought recent versions had partial support