Re: building with C89 host compiler

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

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)