Re: Thoughts on C version supported for PHP-Next

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 5:01 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 8, 2015 4:42 AM, "Christoph Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> Nikita Popov wrote: >> >> > [...] What's our current minimum required vc version? >> >> As of PHP 5.5 at least VC11 (Visual Studio 2012) is required for Windows >> builds. The currently available snapshots of master are also built with >> VC11[1]. > > We are in the process of testing latest or better said the upcoming next > version of VC. > > However it is a long process. We use a couple of libs to test c99 support. > > What could be amazingly helpful, not only for VC, is some sample codes > using what we are most likely to use intensively from c99. It will allow is > to valid them against various compilers as well as clearly define what we > can support in the CS, all compilers we are likely to support for 7, > including VC, ICC or older GCC. > > Cheers, I am quite sure we would use these features: - compound literals (this would allow for zend_string* at compile time) - designated initializers I'll work on some code examples later today if someone hasn't beaten me to it by then.