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Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Dec 2021 09:35:37 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 15:32:34 -0800
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>
> Oh, I didn't know that Emacs builds with Microsoft compilers were no
> longer supported. Live and learn....
We only support GCC and GNU Binutils for building Emacs on MS-Windows.
(And the MS-DOS build never supported anything else.)
> I suppose at some point any remaining references to MSVC could be
> removed from the Emacs source, if only to prevent further confusion
> in this area.
Yes.
> Anyway, the size-zero-array patch wasn't intended to be a mere cleanup
> change; it was a fix to avoid a portability regression in Emacs 28 with
> respect to this Standard C constraint. But if you'd rather move the
> patch to the master branch, feel free; or let me know and I'll do it.
Let's see if it actually causes some trouble on some system. If it
does, I will ask you to revert it on the release branch.
But in the future, please ask first.
- Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/03
- Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays, Paul Eggert, 2021/12/03
- Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/03
- Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays, Paul Eggert, 2021/12/03
- Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/03
- Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays, Paul Eggert, 2021/12/03
- Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays, Stefan Kangas, 2021/12/04
- Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays, Po Lu, 2021/12/04
- Re: emacs-28 9c222b9: Port to C compilers that lack size-0 arrays, Po Lu, 2021/12/03