[Cryptech Tech] C standard

[Joachim Strömbergson]

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Aloha!

Rob Austein wrote:
> Question I only just realized I should have asked a while ago:
> what's our target standard for C code?  ANSI?  C99?  C11?
> 
> I ask because my own default, from years (OK, decades) of habit, is 
> ANSI C.  C99 has features that I wouldn't mind being able to use,
> the question is whether we're comfortable with requiring compiler
> support.
> 
> GCC and Clang both support C99.  Not sure about Microsoft, doubt we 
> care about Microsoft for the green layer, but maybe we do for
> yellow.
> 
> Note that we are already requiring stdint.h, which, strictly
> speaking, is a C99 thing.  Of course, adding a trivial header file is
> not the same supporting new language semantics.
> 
> If nobody objects, I'll assume that C99 is OK and start using it.

I'm all for C99. Not sure we need to move to C11 and it might cause
problems for somebody so I prefer to be somewhat conservative.

We are using Verilog 2001 so.. ;-)

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 Joachim Strömbergson          Secworks AB          joachim at secworks.se
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