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Subject: Re: GSoC Status: Week 11
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On 2 Sep 2013, at 00:54, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> wrote:

>> As a minor note, I've pushed the C standard back down to C99.  This
>> should allow FreeBSD stock gcc to compile the backend.
>=20
> I'm not very worried about this.  If the code is cleaner with C11
> please feel free to use it.

Agreed.  If the code is destined to live in a port, then the only =
requirement is that it must be able to compile with a ports compiler.  =
Ideally, it should compile with gcc 4.7/8 in addition to clang (since =
clang isn't available on all architectures), but this shouldn't be =
considered a blocker.

Also, note that we have tried to ensure that most C11 features (with =
_Generic being the big exception) work even with our ancient GCC.

David