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

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Fri May 4 17:08:07 CEST 2012


On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

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?

This might be of interest:

http://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-and-c99/?nope

Specifically, apparently MSVC 2010 supports variable declarations in the middle of a block in C.

Also, since full C99 support won't be coming to MSVC, perhaps Python should move to compiling in C++ mode?

Cheers,

Dirkjan



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