Re: Depending on C99 (Re: GtkBindingSignal changes)

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 15:37 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > Matthias Clasen writes:
> > > That doesn't mean that we can't declare gcc 2.95 unsupported at some
> > > point,
> >
> > We might also want to declare what versions of MSVC (if any)
> > GTK+/Pango/GLib is at least in theory supposed to be compileable
> > with. (Whether MSVC can be said to be "supported" is another issue;
> > building with any MSVC version certainly requires some amount of
> > manual editing of the makefile.msc files which are indeed included in
> > GLib and GTK+ tarballs, but as far as I know pretty out of date.)
>
> Here is one datapoint: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325864
>
> Visual C++ 6.0 doesn't support C99 variadic macros.

that doesn't tell me anything ;)
what i really need to know to make any sense of this is:
- how old is VC++6.0
- what version of VC++ has proper C99 support and when
  did it come out
- is VC++6.0 something wide-spread that needs to be supported?
  (if yes, why and for how long?)


> Matthias

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ciaoTJ