From: Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@zentaur.org>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Minimum POSIX standard
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:39:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bea5ec8a-38b4-d1b7-7e3f-f99f7625f962@zentaur.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7YngHu1sQPPg4Z5d1fBEeqecmTXfTwOn2ZYqMPdhVZe2g@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/26/2022 3:18 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 6:52 PM Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@zentaur.org> wrote:
>> My personal opinion is that development should use at least the
>> POSIX-1.2001 standard. It's 20 years old. That's surely old enough for
>> any system still running. (It's certainly old enough that any such
>> system is not supported by the vendor)
> OTOH any system not supported by the vendor is exactly one where
> somebody might be trying to build their own zsh binary.
Trust me, they're used to the frustration and having to settle for older
versions. I never could get a gcc version more recent that 4.9 to build
on HP-UX. And that's still technically supported. (Practically OTOH) :)
>
> That said, I thought we standardized on c99 rather than c89 quite some time ago.
Maybe I missed it, but the development guide kept talking about C89 and
not confusing K&R compilers from what I read.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-26 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-23 20:19 Clinton Bunch
2022-10-23 21:57 ` Mikael Magnusson
2022-10-26 1:51 ` Clinton Bunch
2022-10-26 20:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-26 20:39 ` Clinton Bunch [this message]
2022-10-26 20:44 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-26 20:48 ` Clinton Bunch
2022-10-27 7:40 ` Štěpán Němec
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