Re: maint: prefer ckd_add to INT_ADD_WRAPV

[Paul Eggert]

On 2024-07-23 01:15, Lőrinczy via Bug reports for GNU Tar wrote:
> On Sun, 2024-07-21 at 12:34 -0700, Collin Funk wrote:
> > Since pretty much everywhere else uses C23 ckd_* instead of intprops
> > *_WRAV macros now, here is a patch for tar.
>
> Hi, I admit I don't know what it is, but checked the gcc versions on my
> Linux-box, and found that only gcc-14.1 has this file, 12.2..13.22 (and
> likely the earlier versions) do not.
> So for compatibility reasons I'd like to suggest to delay this change
> for a few years (say a decade or so).

Shouldn't be an issue, as Gnulib's stdckdint module supplies 
replacements for old compilers. It has been tested on compilers that are 
decades old.