Re: boolean in C

Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl> writes:
> Why C89, and not C99 ? Virtually all compilers for last 4 years have/ 
> had C99 support.

Not everybody is running a compiler released within the last 4 years.

The short answer is that C99 doesn't appear to offer enough advantage
over C89, *for our purposes*, to justify freezing out older systems.
stdbool is a perfect example of an addition that offers precisely
zero actual functional improvement.  All it would be for us is an
additional autoconf headache and portability hazard.
        regards, tom lane