intel driver will only compile with gcc

Thomas Dickey dickey at his.com
Wed Jun 13 02:02:18 PDT 2007


On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Donnie Berkholz wrote:

> Is there some definite date in the future when we can say, "It's now OK
> to use features widespread in current compilers, if they have a reason
> for use"? Or are we stuck with C89 forever?

you might have a point if the thread had started focusing on features of 
c99 which weren't essentially cosmetic.  So far no one's made any valid 
technical points past the feel-good/resume-enhancement argument (named 
initializers ;-).

(Looking for _some_ technical discussion here, not finding any...)

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