[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] python/dist/src setup.py, 1.219, 1.220 (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sun Aug 28 15:27:04 CEST 2005


"Martin" == Martin v Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

Martin> Raymond Hettinger wrote:

>> Do you have an ANSI-strict option with your compiler?

Martin> gcc does have an option to force c89 compliance, but there
Martin> is a good chance that Python stops compiling with option:
Martin> on many systems, essential system headers fail to comply
Martin> with C89 (in addition, activating that mode also makes
Martin> many extensions unavailable).

However, it might be a reasonable pre-checkin test to try compiling changed files with the option enabled, depending on the number of nonconforming system headers, etc., and grep the output for whinging about c89-nonconformance.

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