[MPlayer-users] Compiler stuff...

[Fredrik Kuivinen]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:45:55PM +0100, Alban Bedel wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:36:47 +0100 (CET)
> Dariusz Pietrzak <dariush at ajax.umcs.lublin.pl> wrote:
> 
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > >	This compiler must first support all gcc extension before we can really
> > > try it with
> > > >	mplayer.
> > sounds like gcc played the 'embrace and extend' tactis quite smoothly, and
> > nobody's complaining.
> 	As a developper I will never complain about gcc C extensions as they are
> 	very useful. In fact I don't understand why they are not part of the standard
> 	C. But you can ask gcc to don't use them or issue warnings when you use them.
> 	I mean it's not hided it's documented as such and you are free to not use them.
> 	Imho all C compiler must have most of this extensions, the more useful for me are
> 	pointer arithmetic, variable length array, C++ comments,nested function, var args
> 	macro and non constant initializer.
> 	Also, I don't really know but C standard must be quite old now.
>

The C99 standard isn't very old just a few years. It includes most of the
things you mentioned at least it has variable length arrays, C++ comments and
var args macros.

/ Fredrik Kuivinen