[Geany-Devel] Lets move to C99

[Matthew Brush]

On 13-08-17 01:35 AM, Colomban Wendling wrote:
> Le 17/08/2013 03:30, Matthew Brush a écrit :
>> On 13-08-16 01:28 AM, Frank Lanitz wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> There were some real old plattforms to keep on supporting running a gcc
>>> 2.9x ... IIRC Solaris 9.
>>>
>>> We have to check the *x-world beside of Linux I think here.
>>>
>>
>> Just stumbled upon this:
>> https://github.com/libav/c99-to-c89/
>>
>> [...]
>
> You must absolutely die for some C99 features to come down to such a
> thing :)  I mean, if we'd need this, do you really want to be able to
> declare counter inside loops so bad?

Nope, just pointing out a way for backwards antiquated platforms to 
still using our source code if we updated to C99.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush