RE: [PHP-DEV] Thoughts on C version supported for PHP-Next

Hi Matt, > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Wilmas [mailto:php_lists@realplain.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 5:17 PM > To: Kalle Sommer Nielsen > Cc: PHP internals; Levi Morrison; Pierre Joye; Nikita Popov; Christoph Becker; > Dmitry Stogov; Anatol Belski; Julien Pauli; Derick Rethans > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Thoughts on C version supported for PHP-Next > > Hi Kalle, > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kalle Sommer Nielsen" > Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 > > > 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) > > Right, but MSVC isn't a concern for the variadic macros thing I'm talking about > (supported since 2005). [1] > > I'm just wondering about the subject of this old thread: have we bumped, or will > we, the minimum requirements for *ALL the other compilers* PHP "supports?" > e.g. requiring some or all of C99 support? That would hopefully say whether we > can rely on variadic macros. :-) > There was an idea to gather as much info as we can, a repo was created https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/phpnextctest . If you have some more snippets, please supply a PR. Also if you think about a particular compiler, you might add a makefile for it. Regards Anatol