> c89 is considerably more portable than c99. Out of popular compilers,
> only gcc implements c99 (I know only gcc and VC). c99 is still
> largely ignored by some  commercial compiler, notably VC.
> If you want your C code to be widely portable, you'd avoid
> c99, for practical reasons.

How interesting, you learn something new every day!


> > Did you try the suggestion that I made, or is it not appropriate?
> 
> Changing extension to .c89/.c99 is not an option.
> gcc even does not understand such file extensions, only *.c

What about my modeline suggestion then?

Max

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