[PATCH] Require C99 for bfd

[Ian Lance Taylor via binutils]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 6:08 AM <cbiesinger@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> This allows writing more modern code, such as not having to declare all
> variables at the top of a block.
>
> See also discussion at:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2020-01/threads.html#00334
>
> Unfortunately, because of how the toplevel Makefile works, we have to
> override CC for this to work.  gnulib/Makefile.am already has a workaround
> for this issue.

If I understand that correctly, I think it's a non-starter.  A command like

make CC="gcc-tip"

should continue to work.

Iian