[Python-Dev] Does trunk still support any compilers that don't allow declaring variables after code? (original) (raw)

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Wed May 2 15:56:40 CEST 2012

Matt Joiner, 02.05.2012 15:37:

On May 2, 2012 6:00 PM, "Antoine Pitrou" wrote:

On Wed, 02 May 2012 01:43:32 -0700 Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

I realize we can't jump to C99 because of A Certain Compiler. (Its name rhymes with Bike Row Soft Frizz You All See Muss Muss.) But even that compiler added this extension in the early 90s. Do we officially support any C compilers that don't permit "intermingled variable declarations and code"? Do we unofficially support any? And if we do, what do we gain? Well, there's this one called MSVC, which we support quite officially. Not sure if comic genius or can't rhyme.

I'm not sure if MSVC and MSVC++ are the same thing, but I surely remember reports by MSVC users only a few years ago that Cython generated C code contained a declaration after an executed code at some point, and that failed to compile for them. So, assuming that MSVC++ "added this extension in the early 90s" and didn't remove it in the meantime, they must be two different things.

Stefan

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