Michael Jarvis wrote: > I've noticed a handful of errors and warnings when compiling Vim with > the GCC "-ansi -pedantic" flags. > > Is there a desire to keep the code so that it compiles cleanly with > older compilers, or are we assuming that most users have C99 support?
Yes, we support ANSI C. > I can submit patches to fix some warnings/errors when compiling in > "ANSI" mode, but it's probably not worth the effort if we're assuming > C99 is the minimum. Please do send patches. I tried getting the errors, but the header files on my system don't work when switching to ANSI mode. > For example, I noticed this error this morning, building on OpenBSD > 5.9 in src/eval.c, using the Vim 7.4 patch 1724 code from Github. The > "//" comments didn't officially become of part of the C standard until > C99, although it was a common extension before then. That // comment shouldn't be there at all! Thanks for the patch. -- Two fish in a tank. One says to the other: "Do you know how to drive this thing?" /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
