On 2014-09-24 16:26:33 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > On 9/24/14 9:21 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Agreed, but what about non-GCC compilers?
>
> > Stick AC_PROG_CC_C99 into configure.in.
>
> I think that's a bad idea, unless you mean to do it only on Solaris.
> If we do that unconditionally, we will pretty much stop getting any
> warnings about C99-isms on modern platforms.
FWIW, that's not that much of an issue these days, because e.g. mylodon
runs with -std=c89 -Werror=c99-extensions - so far that seems to have been
reasonably accurate.
- Andres