Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 15:32:34 -0800
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> Oh, I didn't know that Emacs builds with Microsoft compilers were no 
> longer supported. Live and learn....

We only support GCC and GNU Binutils for building Emacs on MS-Windows.
(And the MS-DOS build never supported anything else.)

> I suppose at some point any remaining references to MSVC could be
> removed from the Emacs source, if only to prevent further confusion
> in this area.

Yes.

> Anyway, the size-zero-array patch wasn't intended to be a mere cleanup 
> change; it was a fix to avoid a portability regression in Emacs 28 with 
> respect to this Standard C constraint. But if you'd rather move the 
> patch to the master branch, feel free; or let me know and I'll do it.

Let's see if it actually causes some trouble on some system.  If it
does, I will ask you to revert it on the release branch.

But in the future, please ask first.