[Python-Dev] C99

[Brett Cannon]

On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 at 10:16 Ned Deily <nad at python.org> wrote:

> On Aug 6, 2016, at 00:04, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > Different question. What features are we actually talking about? Is it
> > possible to enumerate them?
> >
> > The only thing I'm aware of is declarations following non-declarations
> > in the same block, but I'm no C expert any more.
>
> I'm certainly not, either.  Looking back over the original thread, there
> were a number of features talked about.  I think Larry's list here captures
> most of them:
>
> "Clearly it'll be 3.5+ only, and clearly it'll be a specific list of
> features ("C89 but also permitting //-comments, variadic macros,
> variable declarations on any line, inline functions, and designated
> initializers").  But I'm looking forward to it!"
>
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-June/144831.html
>
> So, if that set of features seems reasonable, perhaps the next step is for
> someone (not me) to put together a test patch that incorporates the use of
> them and then we can run it against the buildbots, either by using the
> special build buildbots or just temporarily checking the patch in.  I'm
> willing to do the testing and results-gathering if a patch is supplied.
>

If you want to take that route then you could try temporarily patching one
of the xx* modules as an example.
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