[Bf-committers] IRC Meeting minutes january 16/23
Jonathan Thambidurai
jonthambi at comcast.net
Sun Jan 30 19:34:43 CET 2005
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:59:26 +0100
Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Below notes what was discussed the past two meetings.
>
> - GCC compiler flags
> Stephen Swaney noted that we occasionally get code contributed with the
> C++ convention that allows variable declarations on any part of code.
> Pure C doesn't allow this, but our current -Wall warning level doesn't
> make gcc complain. Using the -ansi flag would solve it, but disable
> "//" comments in code though. A proposal to kill using "//" and write a
> script to convert all to "/* */" didn't make it...
>
Variable declarations in any part of the code is a part of C99 (the "new" ANSI/ISO C standard), as is cpp-style comments. While Microsoft's C-compiler and gcc prior to version 3 do not support these features, they are definitely standard and "Pure C".
Regards,
Jonathan Thambidurai
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