[haiku-gsoc] Re: Xsi semaphorses: patch #1

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > I don't know why that would cause problems with C files, but
> > there's no
> > reason not to switch to C++.
>
> Pre-C99 C disallows variable declarations anywhere other than the
> beginning of the function, and gcc 2.x at least is completely stupid
> about how it reports errors in that case.

Indeed, and on some projects like NetSurf you just can't use g++
because it crashes even more stupidly, so you must fix those things to
comply with C89.

François.

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