Re: Thoughts on C version supported for PHP-Next

Hi Matt 2015-07-08 17:00 GMT+02:00 Matt Wilmas <php_lists@realplain.com>: > Hi all, > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Levi Morrison" > Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2015 > >>> Again, this is a C11 feature. It is supported by clang, gcc and MSVC. >> >> >> To clarify this a bit: they permit anonymous unions in C89 and C99 >> code (meaning you do not need to pass flags like -std=c11 to enable >> it). > > > What's the status on compiler requirements? Are they, or will they be, > higher? > > I'm going to take advantage of variadic macros (__VA_ARGS__) for better code > generation with the parameter parsing implementation I'm finishing up, and > it would be nice to not have to make two versions with a compiler check. > e.g. for MSVC or GCC >= 3, but I don't know what else... For 7.0, we are gonna focus on MSVC 2015 (VC14), although VC11 is also known to work, we will do the 7.0+ releases with VC14 (that is releasing later this month) -- regards, Kalle Sommer Nielsen kalle@php.net