Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] [ANN] dssi-vst 0.3
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 04 2004 - 23:14:28 EET
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:40:07PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> Chris Cannam <cannam_AT_all-day-breakfast.com> writes:
>
> > On Thursday 04 Nov 2004 16:18, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> > > While you're at it, it doesn't compile with gcc-2.95 either (due to
> > > C99-style declarations in the middle of compound statements)...
> >
> > Damn it, I hate the fact that C allows that now. I only ever do it by
> > accident (the C++ side of my brain taking over) and it bothers me that the
> > compiler no longer rejects it.
>
> While the language change is clearly an improvement, it's annoying
> because portable programs still need to support the old compilers for
> a few more years.
>
> I'd think gcc-3.x would have an option to warn about this usage.
Yes, so would I, I think it should do it if you specify --std=c89, but it
doesn't seem to. There may be some -W flag I've missed.
- Steve
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