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PEP 7: Public C API should be compatible with C99 #3862

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Expand Up @@ -31,7 +31,12 @@ C dialect

* Python 3.11 and newer versions use C11 without `optional features
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_%28C_standard_revision%29#Optional_features>`_.
The public C API should be compatible with C++.

* The public C API should be compatible with C99 and with C++03.

The existing API does use a few C11 features which are
commonly available as compiler extensions to C99.
New API should not use these features.

* Python 3.6 to 3.10 use C89 with several select C99 features:

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