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The point of DEVELOPER=1 is to turn up the warnings so we can catch
portability or correctness mistakes at the compiler level. But since
modern compilers tend to default to modern standards like gnu17, we
might miss warnings about older standards, even though we expect Git to
build with compilers that use them.
So it's helpful for developer builds to set the -std argument to our
lowest-common denominator. Traditionally this was c89, but since we're
moving to assuming c99 in 7bc341e21b (git-compat-util: add a test
balloon for C99 support, 2021-12-01) that seems like a good spot to
land. And as explained in that commit, we want "gnu99" because we still
want to take advantage of some extensions when they're available.
The new argument kicks in only for clang and gcc (which we know to
support "-std=" and "gnu" standards). And only for compiler versions
which default to a newer standard. That will avoid accidentally
silencing any build problems that non-developers would run into on older
compilers that default to c89.
My digging found that the default switched to gnu11 in gcc 5.1.0.
Clang's documentation is less clear, but has done so since at least
clang-7. So that's what I put in the conditional here. It's OK to err on
the side of not-enabling this for older compilers. Most developers (as
well as CI) are using much more recent versions, so any warnings will
eventually surface.
A concrete example is anonymous unions, which became legal in c11.
Without this patch, "gcc -pedantic" will not complain about them, but
will if we add in "-std=gnu99".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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