Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Dec 31 2006 20:26, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
>>>> initializers that might happen to be around somewhere. (If I had to
>>>> judge: go with C99, and forget old compilers.)
>>> When it's something basic and costs nothing (like // vs /**/), why not
>>> have it compatible with older ones?
>> If they _still_ don't compile after changing it to /**/, why change it
>> at all..
>>
>>
>> -`J'
>
> Not all compilers are the same or support the same things. There are no
> guarantees when it comes to this stuff :)
>
Also, if someone wants to make it work for very old compilers while
using a newer one to find all the incompatibilities, this makes
-pedantic -ansi -Wall a bit less noisy.
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