> There are people who compile e2fsprogs under Windows (e.g. for FUSE > for Windows support), and MSVC does not support VLA's or C99 in > general In general I tend to be very conservative about what compiler > features are used in e2fsprogs, and I do care about portability beyond > just Linux systems. Ah, thank you! I fully agree that's an important C compiler to target; I had just erroneously assumed that commercial C compilers would try to be "check-box feature complete" on such matters. But apparently Microsoft don't support C99 and have no intention to: http://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-and-c99/ http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2089423-c99-support http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/05/vs_c99_support/ That's a good enough reason; my only remaining objection is calling it "a non-standard/non-portable GCC extension". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
