Re: C99 in Bison

[Joel E. Denny]

Hi Akim.

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Akim Demaille wrote:

> > Alternatively, we could poll at help-bison and might get an answer faster.
> 
> Yes, but what's the size of the poll?

I just checked the subscriber list and it's 260.  While that's smaller 
than the number of people who receive NEWS, it would be a decent initial 
poll.

By the way, I'm not able to look at the subscriber lists for bug-bison and 
bison-patches.  Why is that?

> > > Yet C++03 would be better ;)
> > 
> > Why don't we discuss that again when at least 2.5 is released?  Some
> > cherry picks are already painful.
> 
> Well, I would also like to release 2.6 not too late, so I would wait for 2.6
> to be released first.

Ok.

> > So, if we're not careful about our C99 usage, we
> > might be making more work for whenever we switch to C++03.
> 
> I'm not sure it would require a lot of work.

Ok, then I'll begin using C99 where it seems helpful (but not in 
branch-2.4.2).  I should put together a note for README at some point.  

Thanks.