[MPlayer-cvslog] r27240 - trunk/configure

[Uoti Urpala]

On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 01:58 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Nonsense.  Before this change, we were using -std=gnu89, which is what
> > gcc defaults to.
> 
> Before that we where using the default, now we explicitly ask for the gnu99
> dialect.

Yes before that MPlayer was using the default, and that default was
-std=gnu89. So MPlayer relied on C99 features being present as GNU
extensions in the C89 mode. Now with -std=gnu99 MPlayer the sources are
explicitly compiled as C99, and MPlayer uses those features as part of
the underlying standard and no longer as GNU extensions.

Changing from the default -std=gnu89 to -std=gnu99 does NOT in any way
make the mode any more "GNU dialect" than it was before. In a future gcc
version the default will change to -std=gnu99 too.