Bug#1097938: startpar: ftbfs with GCC-15

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2025, Jesse Smith wrote:

> Also, compiling startpar with gcc instead of g++ would work.

No: GCC 15 now defaults to C23 by default, which forces its own
bool/true/false upon you.

I *was* a bit annoyed when I first heard of it, according to
https://github.com/MirBSD/mksh/commit/5d135a8ee38d84c5a4f6c175b9a831d5acbc641b
this was on 2022-02-19 or thereabouts, and even more annoyed
when they decided to switch GCC 15 to C23 by default with this
short a notice.

Now <stdbool.h> is part of ISO C99 and above, but even that
took a really long time to percolate. Whether you can use it
depends on what (how old) systems you’ll want to support.

bye,
//mirabilos
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