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    Phoronix: Fedora 40 Looking At Tightening C Language Legacy Support Ahead Of GCC 14

    A change proposal drafted for next year's Fedora 40 is looking at "porting Fedora to modern C" by ensuring the contained C source code of packages is compliant with strict C99 compilers...

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  • #2
    Maybe related? https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-d...bccb0639e6e240

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    • #3
      C89 for Life!!!

      ... however the recent POSIX and SUS (which have pretty much converged) does actually dictate C99 these days so I will withhold my invalid complaints that it is reducing portability for no real benefits.

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      • #4
        Someone should warn random bioinformatics tool coders with C and C++ to update their codebase as well. Otherwise more containers for kb sized tools. I am really tired of fixing these codes myself to get a proper compiled tool. Most projects are either orphaned or frozen as the author no longer keeps interest in doing more work. My github page is filled with forks of these.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by BratishkaErik View Post
          Yes, the proposal itself mentions Clang and the linked devel list discussion includes Fedora developers confirming they are coordinating with Gentoo folks on this.

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