On 2/4/2016 3:48 PM, Rostislav Pehlivanov wrote: > The only reason this existed was to allow for old compilers to not > complain/compile the project's code. As far as I know, we no longer have > support for such compilers hence this flag has become useless and we > have no reason to continue dragging so much behind the current standard > of the C language.
We do. Older MSVC (via c99conv), and I am sure others. > Michael Niedermayer has already expressed interest in removing said flag: > http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2016-January/187833.html [...] > This will essentially help bring the project to near 21st century age > and finally allow for developers to save on line numbers by NOT having > to define the variable around which a for loop needs to iterate (e.g. > have for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) loops instead of having to define 'i' > at the start of the function like a normal variable), as well as more of > the syntactic sugar C99 permits. I do mind for loops, but I consider, along with VLAs, mixed code and var decls to be bad practice, myself. If you have a ton of variables declared at the top of blocks, I argue you have other issues. I also believe mixing code/var decls makes variable shadowing much easier. My 2 cents, for what little it is worth. - Derek _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel