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Re: Windows vs C99 (was Re: C99 compliance for src/port/snprintf.c)

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, sandeep.thakkar@enterprisedb.com, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-08-21T17:54:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2018-08-21 13:46:10 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2018-08-21 13:29:20 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> We've got a buildfarm handy that could answer the question.
> >> Let's just stick a test function in there for a day and see
> >> which animals fail.
> 
> > I think we pretty much know the answer already, anything before 2013
> > will fail.
> 
> Do we know that for sure?  I thought it was theoretical.

Pretty much. I'm on mobile data so I don't want to search too much, but
I've previously looked it up, and designated initializer support was
introduced in 2013.  See e.g. the graph in
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/somasegar/2013/06/28/c-conformance-roadmap/

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

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  1. Remove test for VA_ARGS, implied by C99.

  2. Introduce minimal C99 usage to verify compiler support.

  3. Require C99 (and thus MSCV 2013 upwards).

  4. Require a C99-compliant snprintf(), and remove related workarounds.

  5. Try to enable C99 in configure, but do not rely on it (yet).

  6. Make snprintf.c follow the C99 standard for snprintf's result value.

  7. Clean up assorted misuses of snprintf()'s result value.