GSoC Status: Week 11

[David Chisnall]

On 2 Sep 2013, at 00:54, Eitan Adler <eadler at freebsd.org> wrote:

>> As a minor note, I've pushed the C standard back down to C99.  This
>> should allow FreeBSD stock gcc to compile the backend.
> 
> I'm not very worried about this.  If the code is cleaner with C11
> please feel free to use it.

Agreed.  If the code is destined to live in a port, then the only requirement is that it must be able to compile with a ports compiler.  Ideally, it should compile with gcc 4.7/8 in addition to clang (since clang isn't available on all architectures), but this shouldn't be considered a blocker.

Also, note that we have tried to ensure that most C11 features (with _Generic being the big exception) work even with our ancient GCC.

David