On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Matthias Clasen <matthias.cla...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:43 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > >> But since you bring it up, what is the "official" policy? Is it C89? Is it >> published somewhere? > > For GTK+, we're generally avoiding C++ comments, since they cause > problems for the compilers that are used on win32. What other non-C89 > features do you have in mind ?
But they *are* used in gtk3 right now... > Nested functions are not really worth discussing, thats just a > historical accident on the part of the gcc team... I totally agree with this. But the point is, if something's not tested, it's basically guaranteed to break (like srcdir != builddir, etc). gcc defaults to enabling GNU features, and the buildbots don't specify -std=c89, so there is absolutely zero testing coverage. If we want this to work, we need to add stuff to configure.ac in modules to, if gcc is detected, add -std=c89. Or we tell people to use gnu89, and other compilers have to implement the GNU C subset we make up (which is apparently C++ comments OK, nested functions not OK, etc). _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
