On 8/22/18 10:56 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 22/08/2018 14:02, Andres Freund wrote:
>> If we agree on that, I'm going to propose a patch that includes:
>> - relevant cleanups to configure
>> - adapts sources.sgml to refer to C99 instead of C89
>> - add some trivial conversions to for(int i;;) and struct initializers,
>> so the relevant old animals fail
>> - adds a configure check to enable errors with vla usage (-Werror=vla)
>
> sounds good
Sounds good to me.
>
>> - do we want to make declarations at arbitrary points errors? It's
>> already a warning currently.
>
> While there are legitimate criticisms, it's a standard feature in C,
> C++, and many other languages, so I don't see what we'd gain by fighting it.
+1.=
--
-David
david@pgmasters.net
