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

Brian Curtin brian at python.org
Fri May 4 17:14:50 CEST 2012

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:

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?

After seeing that same article yesterday and having the VS2010 port open, I tried this and it appears it won't work without significant code changes at least as far as I saw. I enabled /TP on the pythoncore project and got over 1363 errors.

I don't have the time to figure it out right now, but I'll look more into it later.

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