[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Require compilers to support C17.

[Cosmin Stejerean]

> On Feb 7, 2024, at 1:48 PM, Lynne <dev at lynne.ee> wrote:
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> Feb 7, 2024, 22:11 by ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org:
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>>> On Feb 7, 2024, at 11:27 AM, Lynne <dev at lynne.ee> wrote:
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>>>>> As a compromise, we could start requiring C11 now, and C17 in 7.1.
>>>>> Or does anyone still care about compilers without even c11 support?
>>>>> 
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>>>> How about C11 now and C17 in a year with ffmpeg 8?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Do you have setups and reasons why you can't update them
>>> that don't support C17 or are you speculating?
>>> 
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>> I don't have any personal reasons why I can't support C17 immediately, but C11 now / C17 in a year seems like an approach more likely to find consensus than C17 immediately (or bumping to C17 in a minor release). It was also roughly the approach proposed in person at FOSDEM.
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> It wasn't?
> 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 seemed to have consensus. Or at least that's my recollection of the in person discussion. 

- Cosmin