The only reason this existed was to allow for old compilers to not complain/compile the project's code. As far as I know, we no longer have support for such compilers hence this flag has become useless and we have no reason to continue dragging so much behind the current standard of the C language.
Michael Niedermayer has already expressed interest in removing said flag: http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2016-January/187833.html This will essentially help bring the project to near 21st century age and finally allow for developers to save on line numbers by NOT having to define the variable around which a for loop needs to iterate (e.g. have for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) loops instead of having to define 'i' at the start of the function like a normal variable), as well as more of the syntactic sugar C99 permits. Signed-off-by: Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnu...@gmail.com> --- configure | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index c415d5a..c8e59b5 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -5789,7 +5789,6 @@ disabled iconv || check_func_headers iconv.h iconv || check_lib2 iconv.h iconv - enabled debug && add_cflags -g"$debuglevel" && add_asflags -g"$debuglevel" # add some useful compiler flags if supported -check_cflags -Wdeclaration-after-statement check_cflags -Wall check_cflags -Wdisabled-optimization check_cflags -Wpointer-arith -- 2.7.0 _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
