On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 06:05:57PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > I'm no C expert by any means, but the wise folks at #debian-devel have > mentioned that C99 is very portable, and even POSIX extensions are > "mostly portable" -- I guess it all depends if portability is more > important than your time. Sometimes features aren't that hard to > reimplement yourself, sometimes, you just wouldn't want to...
Some C99-capable compilers will only do C99 if invoked in some special way. Admittedly, the only one I know of that is that stupid is SGI's MIPSpro (you have to invoke it as c99 or cc -c99, otherwise it bitches about "you tried to use something from C99 but didn't tell me in advance, lalalalalalala") so you may choose not to care. Note to self: patch the irix hints file to make perl build with c99 by default -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Aluminum makes a nice hat. All paranoids will tell you that. But what most do not know Is reflections will show On the CIA's evil landsat.