I'm not sure how big the market is, but there are older computers in use in areas that might be running older OS because anything newer is too bloated.
If maintaining ANSI C compatibility truly becomes a burden, sure. If it isn't then why not? On Jan 29, 2017 4:36 PM, "James K. Lowden" <jklow...@schemamania.org> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 11:49:19 +1100 > "dandl" <da...@andl.org> wrote: > > > >>>Sticking with C90 is perfectly rational if you're still running > > >>>Windows 98 on a Pentium III at 500 Mhz with 256 MB RAM. Else, > > >>>really, it's not too soon to adopt a 6-year old standard, C11. > > > > There are plenty of older C compilers used in various niche > > applications: embedded, pricey vendor dev kit not updated, etc. > > Obviously not many of them using Sqlite, but you never know... > > I wonder what pricey embedded environment both supports dlopen(2) and > does not support C99, in this day and age. > > And I'm unsympathetic. SQLite is in the public domain, so that anyone > can use it however they like. That doesn't oblige SQLIte to cater to > the most unpublic, renegade environments. If some proprietary software > can't take advantage of something made freely available, I would wish > only for tougher noogies. > > --jkl > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
