Jan Claeys wrote: > Op za, 17-06-2006 te 10:25 +0200, schreef "Martin v. Löwis": >> Another reason is that I consider VS 2005 buggy, I hope that some >> of the breakage that Microsoft has done to the C library is reverted >> in a future release. VS2005 managed to break compatibility with >> C89 and C99 in a way that made Python fail to start up, also, it >> was possible to have the CRT abort just by calling the builtin open >> with the wrong arguments. There is now a work-around for that breakage, >> but still, I don't trust that VS 2005 is a good product. > > Why should a C++ compiler be able to compile C89 and/or C99 code?
It shouldn't. It appears you think VC 7.1 is a C++ compiler only; that is not the case. It also offers support for (some sort of) C. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
