2021.01.01 19:31 "[Tiff] Enabling and requiring C99 language support", by Roger Leigh

2021.01.03 04:30 "Re: [Tiff] Enabling and requiring C99 language support", by Jeff Breidenbach

Would switching to C99 make autotools unnecessary?

I had a memorable experience with libtiff was about ten years ago. It involved some confusion with autoconf, combined with a gradual migration from 32 to 64 bit architectures. There was quite a bit of data corruption.