Re: heads up RE autoconf C23 vs legacy code

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 03:52:51PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
 > I am concerned that we are rapidly going off the rails of sanity,
 > although that appears to be mostly upstream bugs.   I would like us to
 > step back and try to fix the bugs where are they are.

There seems to be, in some quarters, an unwillingness to admit that
C23 is broken.

 > Another option would be to have the wrappers error out on --std=c23, if
 > c23 is not in USE_CC_FEATURES.  That should fix all of those
 > look-for-c23 enable it bugs in autoconf, in programs that are written in
 > some earlier dialect.   That actually could be a good fix.

That is probably a good idea quite independent of any other measures.

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David A. Holland
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