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List:       netbsd-tech-toolchain
Subject:    Re: building with C89 host compiler
From:       Alan Barrett <apb () cequrux ! com>
Date:       2015-01-05 20:54:55
Message-ID: 20150105205454.GB320 () apb-laptoy ! apb ! alt ! za
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On Mon, 05 Jan 2015, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>Justin Cormack wrote:
>> We should add a note about the requirement for long long support.
>>
>Well next to long long at least: inline, booleans, designated
>initializers, VLA, variadic macros...

Which tools use those language features?

>I see no problem in bootstrapping tools from a K&R compiler and
>user-land...  but cutting language features in the base system is not
>what I would like to see... when there is room for C11 features to
>be used for the sake of being compiler features dependencies lighter.

Nobody has suggested cutting language features in the base system.
We are discussing language features used by "tools", which has a
particular technical meaning in this context.

--apb (Alan Barrett)
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