On Jan 18, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Joerg Mayer wrote: > with Wireshark being more than 10 years old and e.g. requiring glib2/gtk2, > maybe it would be OK to move the coding requirements from C89 to C99. > This would give us // comments, inline keywords and the like. > > What do you think?
I think the main compiler that has problems with // comments is the IBM C compiler for AIX, and, at least in newer versions, I think there might be a compiler flag to enable them; we'd have to have the configure script and the CMake stuff enable that flag when compiling with not-GCC on AIX. I don't know whether any other compilers reject them by default. I don't know which other features of C99 aren't handled by, for example, MSVC++; we should check that. Some C99 functions are implemented in header files or the C library; there might be systems that don't implement those features. Whatever useful C99 features we *can* adopt, we probably should. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
