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Re: C99

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 09:23:45 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, Emil Engler via curl-library wrote:

> While I'm not against a switch to C99, I consider most of the features
> introduced by it, to put it mildly, useless.

I'm inclined to agree that virtually nothing of that is *necessary*.

I think however that it will help us going forward if we restrict curl v8+ to
only build on systems with a >= 64 bit data type, and while lots of C89
compilers already support long long it wasn't until C99 it became standard.

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