P: n/a
Michael B Allen wrote:
Is it considered a bad idea to use a C99 only feature? [..]
Yes. But in this newsgroup its more appropriate to talk about C99
(little more than a figment of some people's imagination) than Visual
C++ or gcc (one of which is almost certainly the compiler you are
using.)
[..] It has been almost 6 years right? [..]
I think technically just a little more than 5 years. But the major
contents were known for about 6 years.
[..] Specifically I'm interested in variadic macros. All of
my code is C89 (or less) except for my debugging macros.

Oh well, sucks to be you. Maybe you could write a portable C
preprocessor with this extension yourself -- that would at least give
some reasonable prospect of portability. The C99 features are just not
portable (almost nobody implements it completely, and its highly
unlikely that any mainstream compiler ever will.) To be portable in C
you have to stick with the 16 year old standard, since the C standard
committee has generally been ignored since then.
Actually, if you are looking for adopting new language features (like
variadic macros) try pushing for them in the next *C++* standard, since
they will then be far more likely to be adopted (and possibly back
ported to the C compiler).
--
Paul Hsieh
http://www.pobox.com/~qed/
http://bstring.sf.net/

Okay, thanks. The reason I asked is because the last time I checked, the default runtime used by gcc on Windows didn't support C99/C11. Turn up vst free download. So even though the compiler supported most of the C99 standard there were problems caused by the runtime library which doesn't support anything but C90. Apr 18, 2011  Why you shouldn't use Dev-C Mini Spy. Personally I never had problems with VC Express to do C-programming, but I never did C99, which is not fully supported in VC Express.

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