So I understand from what I've read in various places that Rockbox endeavors to comply with a pre-C99 C standard (C89, I guess, since we don't use KNR-style function definitions). My question is, why? I think someone mentioned that it's so that people with older compilers can still compile Rockbox, but would it be so horrible to require a compiler that's less than ten years old? Who is this serving, and isn't it quite a hindrance to most of us? For instance, C99 would let people use EOL comments and has a more well-defined behavior for the modulo operator when dealing with negative numbers -- and those are just a couple things I've encountered since I started working with Rockbox.
While we're on the subject, I've been programming in C since 1992 and I've never encountered a compiler that couldn't handle EOL comments. Can anyone elaborate generally on why we stick with C89, and more specifically why EOL comments aren't allowed? -David
