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

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, 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: 2018-08-21T20:49:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2018-08-21 11:09:15 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 08/21/2018 11:06 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > XP at least is essentially a dead platform for us. My animals are not
> > able to build anything after release 10.
> 
> I wouldn't think XP should even be on our list anymore. Microsoft hasn't
> supported it in 4 years.

XP isn't the only thing relevant here, vista and 2008 R1 are in the same
class.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


Commits

Same data as JSON: GET /api/v1/messages/:b64id/commits the thread's linked commits as JSON, with link sources. API reference →
  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.