Re: Fwd: RE: C99 (was: Re: Fix patch for SF bug 2833)

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Bart Van Assche : > On 03/22/18 15:56, Keith Mendoza wrote: > >Looking into using clang on Windows might be worth the effort to get > >net-snmp code caught up to C99. Google Chrome now uses clang to > >compile in Windows: > >http://blog.llvm.org/2018/03/clang-is-now-used-to-build-chrome-for.html >

Re: Fwd: RE: C99 (was: Re: Fix patch for SF bug 2833)

2018-03-22 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 03/22/18 15:56, Keith Mendoza wrote: Looking into using clang on Windows might be worth the effort to get net-snmp code caught up to C99. Google Chrome now uses clang to compile in Windows: http://blog.llvm.org/2018/03/clang-is-now-used-to-build-chrome-for.html We do not only need a compiler

Fwd: RE: C99 (was: Re: Fix patch for SF bug 2833)

2018-03-22 Thread Keith Mendoza
riginal Message- From: Eric S. Raymond [mailto:e...@thyrsus.com] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2018 10:32 AM To: Bill Fenner Cc: Net-SNMP Coders Subject: C99 (was: Re: Fix patch for SF bug 2833) Bill Fenner : > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > On the oth

RE: C99 (was: Re: Fix patch for SF bug 2833)

2018-03-22 Thread Steve Friedl
: Fix patch for SF bug 2833) Bill Fenner : > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > On the other hand, I question whether the extra overhead is a real > > issue in 2018. > > > I have the same question, but know that I have no useful opini

C99 (was: Re: Fix patch for SF bug 2833)

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Bill Fenner : > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > On the other hand, I question whether the extra overhead is a real > > issue in 2018. > > > I have the same question, but know that I have no useful opinion here - my > "embedded system" ships with 4 gigs minimum, but