From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 17:27:20 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: add a note about c99
X-Git-Tag: v3.6.0b1~277
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cfbd48bc56980823dd8e2560e0ce4e46e33e4e3d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

add a note about c99
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
index 66f6b852e3e8..f2b53fbbc916 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
@@ -845,6 +845,9 @@ Optimizations
 Build and C API Changes
 =======================
 
+* Python now requires some C99 support in the toolchain to build. For more
+  information, see :pep:`7`.
+
 * The ``--with-optimizations`` configure flag has been added. Turning it on
   will activate LTO and PGO build support (when available).
   (Original patch by Alecsandru Patrascu of Intel in :issue:`26539`.)