Re: Windows vs C99 (was Re: C99 compliance for src/port/snprintf.c)

From: Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, sandeep(dot)thakkar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Windows vs C99 (was Re: C99 compliance for src/port/snprintf.c)
Date: 2018-08-21 18:03:26
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On 08/21/2018 01:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>> On 2018-08-21 13:29:20 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> We've got a buildfarm handy that could answer the question.
>>> Let's just stick a test function in there for a day and see
>>> which animals fail.
>
>> I think we pretty much know the answer already, anything before 2013
>> will fail.
>
> Do we know that for sure? I thought it was theoretical.

I thought I remembered a message where it had been looked up in docs,
but I think the one I was remembering was Peter's "According to my
research (completely untested in practice), you need 2010 for
mixed code and declarations and 2013 for named initialization
of structs." [1] which didn't quite actually say it was documented.

-Chap

[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ef986aa7-c7ca-ec34-19d9-fef38716b109%402ndquadrant.com

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