[Enigmail] C99 adoption

2013-11-11 Thread Robert J. Hansen
c-comments starting with // are standard sice C99, are there still compilers out there complaining about this? They're very common. 14 years after C99, GCC still doesn't fully implement the standard, nor does the Intel C++ compiler or Clang. The only fully-conformant C99 implementation I

Re: [Enigmail] C99 adoption

2013-11-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/11/2013 05:43 PM, Michael Norrish wrote: As for //, compilers have had this forever given that it's been in C++ forever. yes, of course all modern compilers have this option. however, there's no reason for gratuitous incompatibility against older compilers or for people who for whatever

Re: [Enigmail] C99 adoption

2013-11-11 Thread Michael Norrish
On 12/11/13 11:16, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 11/11/2013 5:43 PM, Michael Norrish wrote: http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html suggests that gcc has pretty close to all of C99 implemented. (a) the world is larger than just GNU, and (b) I stand by my statements. C99's adoption has been quite