On 11 July 2014 14:55, Anton Lundin <gla...@acc.umu.se> wrote: > On 11 July, 2014 - Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote: > >> On 11 July 2014 10:13, Anton Lundin <gla...@acc.umu.se> wrote: >> > glance> for (int i=0;i<3;i++) ? >> >> for that to work on older versions e.g. MSVC 2003, /Tp has to be used >> (like jeff mentioned, we can mark the input to be C++) and then extern >> "C" wrapping would be needed to preserve the binary interface. >> >> on even older versions like MSVC 1998, /Tp exists but the actual >> intermix feature from c99 is a bit messed up. the lexical scanner does >> recognize it, but then it assigns a non-local scope to the iterator. >> so you can do things like: >> >> for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) >> puts("stuff"); >> i = 0; // <--- >> >> i would advice against this particular feature if targeting older >> MSVC, but for third party source projects i usually follow their usage >> of "for" loops. >> for my own managed projects, this: >> >> int i = 0; >> while (i < ...) {... i++ } >> >> remained as a habit. >> > > Msvc 2013 seems to get it right, and i can gladly argue that we > shouldn't support any older Msvc's just for the sake of it. > > How many do actually build subsurface for windows? You, Dirk and maybe 1 > 2 other dev's, but thats probably it. Dirk uses mingw, and you would > know to use msvc 2013, so it doesn't feel like a show stopper for me =) > > But, if we as always, if we know that things break with older msvc's we > should document it. >
well, my opinion is that mingw is sufficient of a complier for windows and in the case of subsurface. MSVC support would be a time consuming exercise with no real benefits. lubomir -- _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@hohndel.org http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface