C99 (Was: Re: Freeing struct lock_file?)

On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 08:24:43PM -0400, David Turner wrote:

But I can see why git wouldn't want to depend on that behavior. C11 has
a way to do this safely, but AIUI, git doesn't want to move to C99 let
alone C11.  So I guess this will just have to remain the way it is.

I would really like to move to at least C99.  However, MSVC bundles a
C89 compiler and a C++ compiler, but Microsoft steadfastly refuses to
bundle an actual C99 compiler, and Git doesn't even come close to
compiling as C++.  Newer versions of MSVC (2013 and newer) support
enough of the features, though, that it might be possible.

So it isn't as much of a "we don't want to move to C99" as much as "we
aren't yet willing to drop support for older versions of MSVC".  I don't
use Windows, so I'm happy to drop support for MSVC 2012 and older, but
others may have different opinions.
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