On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 04:35:19PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Nov 27 10:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> How about the alternative "Don't do that" approach? I think there are >> other parts of the header files which won't work with -std=c89. I've >> always been coding with the understanding that this is a GNU C environment. > >Well, BSD and Linux are using the more portable approach. Why should >Cygwin stand back?
Because the "portable" approach pollutes the namespace and, if we change this, there are several other places which also need to be changed. Anonymous unions are a feature of gcc and MSVC. If we really have to do this then I would like to adopt the convention of using __extension__. cgf
