Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh AT creativecommons.org>]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

> Further, pmiller has suggested we stick to C89 constructs.  I'm feeling
> generous today, so I'll consider that reasonable.  If we do want to stick
> to it, we should modify our compile process so that with GCC we used
> -std=c89 or -ansi so that the codebase does not compile with non-C89
> constructs.

I just tried std=c89, and xdgmime has comments in // style.  If our 
dependencies aren't going to be C89, I see no reason we should be.

New position: Screw C89, let's stick with std=gnu89.

-- Asheesh.

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