Re: Dia ChangeLog report for Tue Mar 23 08:23:02 2004 (UTC)

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 10:04, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Tue, Mar 23, 2004, Ã  09:28:58AM +0100, Dia ChangeLog Daemon a écrit:
> 
> > +	* objects/standard/box.c objects/standard/ellipse.c : fix gccisms :
> > +	standard C requires variables to be declared at the beginning of
> > +	a block, also there is no fabsf() with msvc
> 
> Naaah, Hans, this is your C compiler which doesn't conform with C99, that's
> all.
> 
> More seriously, Lars, perhaps we should consider enabling a few gcc
> pedwarns, maybe to the extent of demanding C89 conformance, shouldn't we?

C89 sounds reasonable.

> (Hans is sometimes a good substitute for gcc -pedantic, but in the long run,
> gcc with suitable arguments will be more patient and help better distribute
> the portability effort)

Agreed.  It is unfortunately still too early to expect C99 conformance. 

I was surprised to find that {} isn't actually allowed in C, I was fully
expecting it to be a zero-element array.

-Lars