Re: Why is C90 enforced in KDE?

2015-12-20 Thread Christian Ehrlicher
Am 20.12.2015 um 10:24 schrieb Thomas Lübking: On Sonntag, 20. Dezember 2015 04:21:29 CEST, Kevin Kofler wrote: The kdewin team should just point people to a flex.exe that produces files that work with the bitrotten C compiler included with Visual C++. So we only need somebody who forks the h

Re: Why is C90 enforced in KDE?

2015-12-20 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Sonntag, 20. Dezember 2015 04:21:29 CEST, Kevin Kofler wrote: The kdewin team should just point people to a flex.exe that produces files that work with the bitrotten C compiler included with Visual C++. So we only need somebody who forks the hardly maintained flex/yacc tools for windows...

Re: Why is C90 enforced in KDE?

2015-12-20 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Sonntag, 20. Dezember 2015 04:08:20 CEST, Kevin Kofler wrote: - pipe flex/yacc results through c++ rather than the C compiler won't do much good, because the C++ compiler will not necessarily grok any other C99isms in the code. This only really helps for "//" comments. Afaiu flex/yacc ca