Monday, April 16, 2018

Re: Is ANSI C support still needed?

On Sun, 2018-04-15 at 12:43 +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> For a long time Vim code was made to be compiled with ANSI C (also
> known
> as C89 and ISO C90). This means it can also be compiled on very old
> systems. And since it wasn't too much work to support it, that was
> the
> choice.
>

C99 being 19 years old should be the default for a while. To me, I
don't see any reason to support C89 nowadays. Even MS has finally added
C99 in recent VisualStudio versions ;)

Regards,

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David

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