Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> Michael Deutschmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Yet again, a new C89-incompatibility ... [snip] >> As you can see, I am not very motivated to be >> proactive about supporting such ancient compilers. >> Is upgrading not an option for you? > > As I recall, I work with several platforms that do not have C99 > compilers. NSK I know is one, also OSF (which I don't know ho long we're > stuck with the 4.x series) and Solaris 5.7 (which we also still support > for our product lines). I haven't tested using a 5.8 compiler against > 5.7, but at any rate I still run into this sort of thing often enough > that non-c89 code is annoying. > > ...and unless there is a free upgrade for NSK, then in that case at > least the answer to 'can you upgrade' is "no".
Don't worry. Support for pre-C99 compilers won't go away soon, but it may continue to lag. I was simply explaining why (too few people care) I'm not investing the time to cater proactively to such systems.
