Hi developers,

On Wed, Feb 7, 2024, 23:30 Jean-Baptiste Kempf <j...@videolan.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2024, at 01:36, Cosmin Stejerean via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> >> There were simply no objections to moving to C11.
> >> The C17 plan came about later because it has important bugfixes.
> >> It doesn't really matter as compilers backported the new behaviour to
> C11
> >> (or rather, they consistently had the same behaviour, but now it became
> a standard).
> >>
> >
> > There were no objections to C11, however C17 was brought up and there
> > were objections that it's likely too soon and I believe JB proposed
> > holding off for a year on C17 (while adopting C11 immediately), which
>
> My recommendation is still this:
> - move to C11 now
> - activate C17 on some Fate/CI targets
> - recommend C17 compilers modes
> - move to C17 at this mid-year when 7.1 is branched (LTS if we follow our
> plans)
>


I like this approach. It's a shame we can't get metrics on who might be
genuinely affected by a direct move to C17.

I'd be more than willing to host one or more FATE nodes with C17 turned on.
Do let me know if this is desirable.

-- Sean McGovern



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