Re: support for pre-C99 compilers

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * Bruno Haible <oe...@py...t> [2017-10-19 01:12:48 +0200]:
>
>> > Fix build failure with pre-C99 compilers (regression from 2008-10-29).
>> 
>> I thought we decided to require C99?
>
> Yes, a couple of months ago I too thought we would lose no porting targets
> by assuming C99 or better. But I had forgotten about IRIX 6.5, where the
> only available compiler for the 'o32' ABI is cc (at least on the machine
> I have access to), and this cc does not grok statements after declarations.

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm does not have any IRIX.
If you give them IRIX, you might have gcc on it...

> Anyway, this pre-C99 support is not a lot of trouble.

This prevents us from dumping varbrace, so it's kinda big deal.

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