I'll ask my colleague what his compiler setup was. On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:24 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
2016-06-04 19:47 GMT+02:00 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>:
Funny. Just two weeks ago I was helping someone who discovered a compiler that doesn't support the new relaxed variable declaration rules. I think it was on Windows. Maybe this move is a little too aggressively deprecating older Windows compilers?
I understood that Python only has a tiny list of officially supported compilers. For example, MinGW is somehow explicitly not supported and I see this as a deliberate choice.
I'm quite sure that all supported compilers support C99.
Is it worth to support a compiler that in 2016 doesn't support the C standard released in 1999, 17 years ago?
Victor
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