On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:24:14PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Nov 27 11:16, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 04:35:19PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >On Nov 27 10:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> How about the alternative "Don't do that" approach? I think there are >> >> other parts of the header files which won't work with -std=c89. I've >> >> always been coding with the understanding that this is a GNU C >> >> environment. >> > >> >Well, BSD and Linux are using the more portable approach. Why should >> >Cygwin stand back? >> >> Because the "portable" approach pollutes the namespace and, if we change >> this, there are several other places which also need to be changed. >> >> Anonymous unions are a feature of gcc and MSVC. If we really have to do >> this then I would like to adopt the convention of using __extension__. > >Ok, no problem. I don't like this __extension__ stuff much but I can >live with it.
Ok. I'll check in a patch which adds __extension__ to various places in include/cygwin/signal.h. cgf
