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diff --git a/doc/lispref/internals.texi b/doc/lispref/internals.texi index bfc9d491c5e..3a5bd4aea7e 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/internals.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/internals.texi @@ -580,15 +580,14 @@ Emacs session. @section C Dialect @cindex C programming language -The C part of Emacs is portable to C89: C99-specific features such as -@samp{<stdbool.h>} and @samp{inline} are not used without a check, +The C part of Emacs is portable to C99 or later: C11-specific features such +as @samp{<stdalign.h>} and @samp{_Noreturn} are not used without a check, typically at configuration time, and the Emacs build procedure -provides a substitute implementation if necessary. Some C99 features, -such as declarations after statements, are too difficult to provide -substitutes for, so they are avoided entirely. +provides a substitute implementation if necessary. Some C11 features, +such as anonymous structures and unions, are too difficult to emulate, +so they are avoided entirely. -At some point in the not-too-distant future the base C dialect will -change from C89 to C99, and eventually it will no doubt change to C11. +At some point in the future the base C dialect will no doubt change to C11. @node Writing Emacs Primitives @section Writing Emacs Primitives |