| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj(at)pointblue(dot)com(dot)pl> |
| Cc: | Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: boolean in C |
| Date: | 2009-07-16 13:37:06 |
| Message-ID: | 23616.1247751426@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj(at)pointblue(dot)com(dot)pl> writes:
> Why C89, and not C99 ? Virtually all compilers for last 4 years have/
> had C99 support.
Not everybody is running a compiler released within the last 4 years.
The short answer is that C99 doesn't appear to offer enough advantage
over C89, *for our purposes*, to justify freezing out older systems.
stdbool is a perfect example of an addition that offers precisely
zero actual functional improvement. All it would be for us is an
additional autoconf headache and portability hazard.
regards, tom lane
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