[GRASS-dev] Min. req. of programming language standard support, GRASS GIS 8

[Markus Metz]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 11:19 PM Moritz Lennert <
mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
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> Am 29. Januar 2021 20:54:06 GMT+00:00 schrieb Markus Metz <
markus.metz.giswork at gmail.com>:
> >Hi Huidae,
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> >On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 6:30 PM Huidae Cho <grass4u at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Markus,
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> >> I think we have to think about what benefits it would bring to us by
> >modernizing C code. Probably, not much at all. Personally, I would keep
it
> >as is because the minimum set of anything (e.g., ANSI C with no new
> >features) would probably be more portable, I believe. In other words,
what
> >are we missing from C99?
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> >as I mentioned, there is no need to modernize the GRASS C code. The
> >question is if we officially allow C99 features.
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> >For example a number of useful math-related functions and macros are only
> >available with C99. See /usr/include/math.h on your system and search for
> >C99. Also a number of features related to data types, particularly for
> >various int datatypes (stdint.h), become available with C99. And the
> >geographic lib in PROJ with src/geodesic.c wants C99. For new PROJ
> >versions, C99 is a requirement.
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> If proj requires it, doesn't it automatically become a requirement for
GRASS as well ?

No, because the code base of other libs might have completely different
compile requirements. A software can use functions and libs of other
software packages, but does not need to follow the compile standards of
those other software packages, because they are compiled independently.

Markus M
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