Re: Thoughts on C version supported for PHP-Next

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2014 9:14 PM, "Dmitry Stogov" <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > > > > I think opinions about readability are subjective. > > > > The real problem, that it'll break compatibility with old uncommon > > compilers. > > I'm not sure if new MSVC versions support it, but the one I use - does > not. > > We are working with the vc team to test the c99 (c++11/14 as well) with > many oss softwares, php included (non core ext). > > It could be possible to use c99 from a vc pov but not if we decide to > release php-next next year. However with the yearly vc release, we could > make it for Q4/2015. > Could you please provide an update on the current situation regarding C99 support in MSVC? It seems that VS 2013 supports the most important C99 features [1]. What's our current minimum required vc version? [1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh409293.aspx