Re: NetworkManager C99 compiler requirement for 0.9.10 (and therefore 0.9.9)

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

On 02/28/2013 10:57 AM, Pavel Simerda wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to do *occasional* C99-style declarations in the code to avoid ugly hacks when using 
> conditionally built code. That means bumping up the compiler requirements to the C99 standard. As we 
> currently only target to GCC and possibly LLVM, I don't think it would be a problem.
>
> I will modify the configure.ac to require and use C99, if there are no objections on the list.

Given that NM is Linux-only, this seems fine to me; at this point, the
only real reason for sticking with C90 in the GNOME platform is to
support win32 (where MSVC does not and will not ever support C99); it
seems unlikely that in 2013 there is any other platform where NM could
even theoretically be built where there is a defensible reason to use a
non-C99 compiler.

You may need to specify --std=gnu99 rather than c99 to avoid warnings
about gcc extensions though.

-- Dan