Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > There are bigger problems than that. The Microsoft compiler still doesn't
> > support large chunks of the 1999 ISO C Standard.
> >
>
> Seriously? OK, well that's news to me.
Yes, seriously:
http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/Windiots/ms_c99.html
That list is not complete, just what I felt was stuff that was hard
to do without. The lack of a standards conforming snpirntf is
particlularly painful.
> I was under the impression that
> practically all C compilers in existence support the same set of
> features. (Although I'm sure each one probably has a few non-standard
> additions too.)
With the GNU compilers (and I suspect most other) the non-standard
features can be switched off. For the GNU compilers -std=c99 or -std=c89
allows the user to pick which standard they are compiling to.
Erik
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