[MPlayer-users] Compiler stuff...

[Alban Bedel]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:36:47 +0100 (CET)
Dariusz Pietrzak <dariush at ajax.umcs.lublin.pl> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > >	This compiler must first support all gcc extension before we can really
> > try it with
> > >	mplayer.
> sounds like gcc played the 'embrace and extend' tactis quite smoothly, and
> nobody's complaining.
	As a developper I will never complain about gcc C extensions as they are
	very useful. In fact I don't understand why they are not part of the standard
	C. But you can ask gcc to don't use them or issue warnings when you use them.
	I mean it's not hided it's documented as such and you are free to not use them.
	Imho all C compiler must have most of this extensions, the more useful for me are
	pointer arithmetic, variable length array, C++ comments,nested function, var args
	macro and non constant initializer.
	Also, I don't really know but C standard must be quite old now.

		Albeu