Re: hierarchical projects with configure scripts

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tom Tromey <address@hidden>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <address@hidden>,  Bruno Haible <address@hidden>,  Paul Eggert 
> <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:05:26 -0600
> 
> Sergio> I don't know if just requiring C99 or later would be enough to solve
> Sergio> this problem, but it's something to consider for GDB, I think.
> 
> I personally think it would be fine -- C99 is nearly 20 years old now,

A nit: it should be okay to require C99 for the compiler, but we
should not require that for the library (including header files),
because MinGW, for example, uses a C99-compliant GCC, but the headers
and the function from the standard C library are those from Windows,
which are not 100% C99.