Re: GNU make 4.2.90 release candidate available

[Paul Eggert]

Dennis Clarke wrote:
> I am wondering what is
> the actual dialect to adher to.

We need to be portable to C99 and later. C89 and later if the programmer wants 
to and if it's not too much work. K&R C is almost surely not worth the effort.

OpenSSL is a different project from OpenSSL and uses different coding standards. 
The GNU coding standards say that GNU code should be portable. Although K&R C 
and C89 are no longer relevant on practical hosts, C99 and later are, so they 
are core target platforms for GNU Make and for other GNU projects that have code 
written in C.