[MPlayer-dev-eng] gcc 2.95.3 ve_xvid4.c compile error

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:40:10AM +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:18:35AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > The point is that anyone who knows C wouldn't even think of writing a
> > > declaration anywhere but the beginning of a function... Doing this has
> > > been possible for less than 2 years... Is everyone really that much of
> > > a newbie to C?!?
> > 
> > I don't think that's true. Maybe gcc started supporting it 2 years ago,
> > but I'm quite certain it was already possible when I started writing C
> > programs about 5 years ago (don't ask me what compiler though, probably some M$
> > or Borland thingie).
> 
>   The thing is, that C++ compilers supported this since ages anyway. And
> even years ago ppl already used C++ compilers to compile C ( what I find
> rather annoying, but well.. ). So for many ppl there is no clear border
> between C and C++.
> 
>   But enough on this, i think we should better make a clear statement
> about what we allow to be used of C99/extensions and what not, similar
> like it is done in FFmpeg. Maybe that helps a little.

The problem isn't clear statements. Everyone knows it's disallowed.
But they do it by bad habit (like you say, coming from C++ land..)
anyway and the compiler doesn't catch it, so bad code keeps getting
committed.

Rich