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From: "Mark Shannon" <mark@hotpy.org> To: "Python Dev" <python-dev@python.org> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2021 5:26:37 PM Subject: [Python-Dev] Why aren't we allowing the use of C11?
Hi everyone,
PEP 7 says that C code should conform to C89 with a subset of C99 allowed. It's 2021 and all the major compilers support C11 (ignoring the optional parts).
C11 has support for thread locals, static asserts, and anonymous structs and unions. All useful features.
Is there a good reason not to start using C11 now?
Cheers, Mark.
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Depends what platforms the python core developers are willing to support. Currently downstream on e.g. RHEL7 we compile versions of CPython under gcc 4.8.2 which does not support C11. In addition the manylinux2014 base image is also based on CentOS 7, which wouldn't support C11 as well. -- Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat