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Authored by jhb on Jun 20 2023, 2:54 PM.
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This matches the default used in userland, and the kernel already
depends on various GNU extensions to standard C that are supported by
both clang and GCC.

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imp added inline comments.
sys/conf/kern.mk
289

I have changes that remove support for k7r, c90 and c95 here.
Comments on committing that?

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jun 20 2023, 2:59 PM
sys/conf/kern.mk
319

Also, we can likely remove this line.

sys/conf/kern.mk
289

I think that's fine, we aren't likely to compile as pre-C99 now.

319

Yes. this is now stale.