[Python-Dev] C99 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jun 7 11:21:45 EDT 2016

So here's the diffs that seem to indicate we were working with a compiler that wasn't full C99 (or maybe previously we were working with a compiler that had extensions?)

https://github.com/dropbox/typed_ast/commit/f7497e25abc3bcceced3ca6c3be3786d8805df41

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

I'll ask my colleague what his compiler setup was.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:24 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

2016-06-04 19:47 GMT+02:00 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>: > Funny. Just two weeks ago I was helping someone who discovered a > compiler that doesn't support the new relaxed variable declaration > rules. I think it was on Windows. Maybe this move is a little too > aggressively deprecating older Windows compilers? I understood that Python only has a tiny list of officially supported compilers. For example, MinGW is somehow explicitly not supported and I see this as a deliberate choice. I'm quite sure that all supported compilers support C99. Is it worth to support a compiler that in 2016 doesn't support the C standard released in 1999, 17 years ago? Victor

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