Re: Depending on C99 (Re: GtkBindingSignal changes)

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 05.01.2006 17:26, Roger Leigh wrote:
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> Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> writes:
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> > Visual C++ 6.0 doesn't support C99 variadic macros. 
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> It's over eight years old.  The last time I checked, anyone could
> download the latest MS compiler from the MS website, so I don't think
> there's any good reason to restrict yourselves to this compiler's
> capabilities.  
Have you used any of the MS compilers to compile at least Glib?
The last free (as in in beer) version did not support linking with
the C-runtine as DLL at all.
But this is a requirement of GLib working on native win32.
Even with mingw.

> You can only take portability so far until it becomes
> counter-productive.  Why not just make proper C99 support the minimum
> requirement?
Why not simply drop usage of anything else than the latest GCC?
And ony be portable to differnt flavours of Linux? *No* NOT serious.

	Hans

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