On Nov 27 11:16, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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__.
Ok, no problem. I don't like this __extension__ stuff much but I can live with it. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
