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authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2019-08-18 19:15:53 +0200
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@@ -38,6 +38,14 @@ the system is at least Single-Unix-Specification V2 compatible, yet will
permit a C89 compiler. It currently ships with a copy of the trio library
for systems that lack snprintf().
+Fetchmail should be able to be compiled with C89, C99, C11, C++98, C++03,
+C++11, C++14 compilers, but not C++17 because the "register" keyword is
+used in some parts of the code.
+
+Future fetchmail releases will require modern language features such as
+"long long" and others, so this release is the last to support C89.
+
+
Further reading
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