Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > .. > >> C99 allows it. Which compiler is giving you trouble? > > > > One part of the answer is that we generally try to enforce C89 > > compatibility. I don't know if any modern compiler would mind, though. > > I know, but if we ever start making exceptions, this would be a > particularly harmless one. There must be a reason why we don't use > -std=c89 flag with the standard config. I don't think too many people > remember that c89 allows trailing commas in array and struct > initialization lists, but not in enum declarations. Without compiler > help, enforcing this is an unnecessary maintenance burden.
xlc on AIX has problems: http://bugs.python.org/issue5889 Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ 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
