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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:34:18 +0200
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] inline cleanup/C89 support

* Isaac Dunham <idunham@...abit.com> [2012-08-30 15:45:34 -0700]:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:53:16 +0200
> Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net> wrote:
> > this won't work with c++, nor old strict c compilers
> > without __inline and __restrict and can break various
> > c parsing tools (ctags, swig, various lints, ..)
> 
> 1. Do any of these "old strict c compilers" exist on Linux?

yes
(eg sdcc for microcontrollers, plan9 cc used for the go runtime)

> Are any of them worth supporting? 

probably no

> 2. Have you tested those C parsing tools? Have they been updated to
> support C99?
> 

i used some of them, i know ctags handles __restrict
while swig (1.3) does not

many of the c (and c++) parsing tools dont do correct
preprocessing or don't define all the macros like
__STDC_VERSION__ so even if c99 grammar is mostly
supported i wouldnt be surprised if doxygen or indent
or similar tools had problems with __restrict

> If it is a realistic combination (can produce a working hello world),
> then it *might* be worth supporting.

the headers are not only for compiling musl

of course glibc uses __restrict so it should work
most of the time

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