Re: Depending on C99 (Re: GtkBindingSignal changes)

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 05.01.2006 12:01, Tim Janik wrote:
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> could people please speak up if they think depending on C99 would
> be a bad idea for glib & gtk+ 
I do think this is a bad idea. See below and other mails.

> (e.g. with the next major release) and
> why this would be a problem for them?
To me this change sounds as reasonable as compiling all of Gtk+ as C++.

> in the end, the w32 compilers are C99 compliant i'd assume and on
None of the win32 compilers I use (msvc 6.0 - 7.1, OpenWatcom latest)
is C99 compliant.

> older unixes when there're no modern compilers available, there's
> always a C99 compliant gcc that can be used.
Is there *any other* compiler than GCC being C99 compliant ?

	Hans

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