CodingGuidelines: update for C99
Since 7bc341e21b
(git-compat-util: add a test balloon for C99
support, 2021-12-01) we've had a hard dependency on C99, but the prose
in CodingGuidelines was written under the assumption that we were
using C89 with a few C99 features.
As the updated prose notes we'd still like to hold off on novel C99
features, but let's make it clear that we target that C version, and
then enumerate new C99 features that are safe to use.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -204,10 +204,14 @@ For C programs:
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by e.g. "echo DEVELOPER=1 >>config.mak".
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- We try to support a wide range of C compilers to compile Git with,
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including old ones. You should not use features from newer C
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including old ones. As of Git v2.35.0 Git requires C99 (we check
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"__STDC_VERSION__"). You should not use features from a newer C
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standard, even if your compiler groks them.
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There are a few exceptions to this guideline:
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New C99 features have been phased in gradually, if something's new
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in C99 but not used yet don't assume that it's safe to use, some
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compilers we target have only partial support for it. These are
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considered safe to use:
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. since early 2012 with e1327023ea, we have been using an enum
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definition whose last element is followed by a comma. This, like
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