On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:16:38 -0700 Paul Querna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul Querna wrote: > > André Malo wrote: > >> * Paul Querna wrote: > >> > >>> Ruediger Pluem wrote: > >> > >>>> This does not work on ANSI C compilers. Declarations need to be at the > >>>> start of the block. > >>> Then lets not support them. > >>> > >>> C90 required that variable decls came before code, but IIRC C99 style > >>> mid-function declarations should work on pretty much all modern > >>> platforms, aka anything with GCC or MSVC. > >> > >> -1. > >> "IIRC" and "pretty much all modern" are both bad reasons for being > >> sloppy ;-) > >> > >> IIRC ( >:-> ) the AIX compiler actually doesn't like it, but other > >> people know that better. > > > > Then lets not support AIX :-) > > To expand on my beliefs around this a little bit, if a platform doesn't > have things like kqueue, epool or event ports, and it still doesn't have > a c99 compiler, where is the value in supporting it, they are likely > still using Apache 1.3 anyways. > > -Paul > VC++2005 doesn't support mid-function declarations as a C compiler. Maybe VC++2008 doesn't either. With a file name extension ".c", #include <stdio.h> int main(){ puts(""); int a = 0; return 0; } does not compile with error C2143.