Re: [POLL] C99, declaration after statement

[Paul Eggert]

On 09/24/11 07:26, Bruno Haible wrote:
> 1) Is it important for you that what you get from gnulib can be compiled
>    with a C89 compiler (gcc 2.95, IRIX cc, MSVC)?

Not any more.

Platforms that use GCC 2.95 can install a newer GCC and use that.

IRIX users can install either GCC or MIPSpro C (the SGI proprietary compiler).
Any serious IRIX installation should have one or the other.
SGI will stop support for IRIX in December 2013
<http://www.sgi.com/products/software/irix/>
so IRIX will become moot soon anyway.

MSVC is an outlier; it's new to Gnulib, has some real porting
issues due to Microsoft's intentional violations of
standards, and should not be driving this decision.

> 2) Is it important for you that gnulib-tool displays information about whether
>    what you imported from gnulib can be compiled with a C89 compiler?
> 
> 3) Is it important for you that you can tell gnulib-tool whether it should
>    accept or reject to import code from gnulib that cannot be compiled with
>    a C89 compiler?

No to both.  At this point, I'm comfortable with assuming
support for declarations after statements.