On 10/26/2022 3:18 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
Trust me, they're used to the frustration and having to settle for older versions. I never could get a gcc version more recent that 4.9 to build on HP-UX. And that's still technically supported. (Practically OTOH) :)On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 6:52 PM Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:My personal opinion is that development should use at least the POSIX-1.2001 standard. It's 20 years old. That's surely old enough for any system still running. (It's certainly old enough that any such system is not supported by the vendor)OTOH any system not supported by the vendor is exactly one where somebody might be trying to build their own zsh binary.
Maybe I missed it, but the development guide kept talking about C89 and not confusing K&R compilers from what I read.That said, I thought we standardized on c99 rather than c89 quite some time ago.