intel driver will only compile with gcc

Thomas Dickey dickey at his.com
Wed Jun 13 06:41:54 PDT 2007


On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:02:18AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> 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...)
>
> Yes, Daniel gave some technical reasons in:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-June/025514.html

I took that into account when making my comment.

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