[Python-Dev] C99

[Matthias Klose]

On 06.08.2016 00:27, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 at 15:17 Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I want it to list specific versions that are known to be good right
>> now, so we can point fingers appropriately when a regression happens.
>>
> 
> OK, then we could pin it to MSVC 2016, gcc 6.1, and clang 3.8.1 which are
> the latest releases (unless I'm missing a compiler we all feel like we
> should officially support).

please make that GCC 6.2 once released later this month (6.1 is the first 6.x
release).

GCC 5 and GCC 6 default to C11 (-std=gnu11), does the restriction to C99 mean
that -std=gnu99 should be passed explicitly?