On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 03:25 +0900, José Fonseca wrote: > On 2/20/08, Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Keith Whitwell wrote: > > | Ian Romanick wrote: > > |> José Fonseca wrote: > > |> | Microsoft compilers don't support C99 syntax. The only native windows > > |> | compilers that support C99 syntax are mingw32-gcc and Intel C/C++ > > |> | compiler, but we can't seriously support windows platform by targeting > > |> | these compilers alone and leave msvc out. > > |> > > |> In a word, NO. Frankly, I don't care to be restricted to 20 year old C > > |> syntax just because Microsoft doesn't care to support the 10 year old C > > |> syntax. > > | > > | Well, in the core parts of gallium this will hold. For the Cell driver > > | it doesn't matter so much... > > | > > | It's hardly ideal but we're basically grownups here and can probably > > | take it in our stride, especially given that the same restrictions have > > | been historically enforced in core Mesa. > > > > But this has not been the case in the hardware driver code. Isn't this > > code being folded into gallium (i.e., i965simple)? In that code we > > routinely use variadic macros, C99 array initializers, and C99 structure > > initializers...and it makes the code better. > > It actually was when I tried to compile this code with msvc and saw > all the compile errors and all the necessary effort to fix it that I > decided to write this thread. Basically, using -stc=c99 with gallium > code hides this problem until it is quite big.
Wait, are you saying that you're going to be enforcing msvc compatibility in the drivers as well? I would strongly object to that. -- Eric Anholt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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