>-----Original Message----- >From: Patrick Cosmo [mailto:pco...@incognito.com] > >>Yes you can, in modern variants of C. Are you using an old compiler? > >I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Version 8. > >You are correct, Microsoft does not have full support for C99, >which I believe is the C conformance spec that allows >mid-scope declarations. > >Microsoft will likely never support this, so if we want to >support MS compilers, we can't have mid-scope declarations in >C code (note that a previous email indicated this has already >been fixed in the source code).
Well, since I've never paid for any microsoft compiler (nor even used one) I guess I can't complain too much, but ugh! If they have features available when compiling C++ code you'd think they'd be able to make it work for C within 6 years (9 years if you consider vs2008). oh well. eric
