Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> ... I think it might be unlikely to
> upset anyone if it works something like this:
> * For 16+ nothing, we're going to be C23 clean (after a couple more
> back-patches)
> * For 9.2-15 on GCC < 15 it'll stay as nothing too
> * For 9.2-15 on early GCC 15 adopter distros like Fedora/Gentoo etc
> we'll detect C23, and perhaps start spitting out -std=c17 (if you've
> detected C23, I think you can assume that C17 is available so we don't
> have to do a C17-C11-C99[-C89] search?)
> * When 12-15 fall out of support and all compilers are eventually C23+
> compilers, they'll eventually always be getting -std=c17 by the above
> rules but no one will mind about that in the ancient branches
Sounds plausible to me. Will you work on making that happen?
regards, tom lane
