Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:28:34 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>, freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org Subject: Re: c89 broken on head? Message-ID: <51390682.3020703@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5138F6EF.6020203@coosemans.org> References: <5138CD6B.2050309@coosemans.org> <5138EA4C.1060001@FreeBSD.org> <5138F6EF.6020203@coosemans.org>
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On 2013-03-07 21:22, Tijl Coosemans wrote: ... > Because it's the practical thing to do? Old code/makefiles can't possibly > be expected to know about compilers of the future, while new code can be > expected to add -std=c11. I am not sure I buy that argument; if it were so, we should default to K&R C instead, since "old code" (for some arbitrary definition of "old") could never have been expected to know about gcc defaulting to gnu89.
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