Joel Parker wrote: > As seen here <http://source.winehq.org/source/include/winnt.h#L152>, > we seem to be going through a lot of trouble to enable anonymous structs > and unions for those compilers that support it. Why do this, especially > when we need to name them anyway for those that don't? > > My reason for asking is that I'm doing a casual ANSI sweep of the code, I doubt that is useful. If you do that i would at least check for C99. There is no point for checking for compatibility with an old standard just for the sake of being compliant. There is a point though to keep compliance with an old existing compiler that people still use. That is for Wine gcc-2.95.
> and anonymous unions are causing problems (they're not allowed). I could > just put in a test for __STRICT_ANSI__ and disable them if found, but > that feels like gaming the system, and it's not a standard macro anyway. > The best way (other than just naming all the structs/unions) is to test > for __STDC__, but GCC includes that one even when not using -ansi mode. > > Thoughts? See above. bye michael -- Michael Stefaniuc Tel.: +49-711-96437-199 Sr. Network Engineer Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hauptstaetterstr. 58 http://www.redhat.de/ D-70178 Stuttgart