widl patch

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On January 8, 2003 06:47 pm, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> Wine depends on gcc in a lot of ways already. But my idea is that each
> compiler should have a way, and we can define __try to the way of the
> currently used compiler, and to a no-op (like that if(1) thing) if the
> compiler can't do it.

I think having such support would be _extremely_ cool! Most people use
gcc anyway, so 99.9% of people would benefit, and it's one of the 
outstanding things for Winelib we don't yet have a decent solution for.

> > OTOH, since VC supports these natively as a "language extension", and
> > gcc has the nested functions, dependency-wise, I guess it's not all
> > that bad.  Anybody know how long gcc has had support for nested fn's in
> > pure C?
>
> I'm pretty sure at least gcc 2.7.2 had them (I remember seeing it in its
> docs).

Yeah, they've been in there for as long as I can remember. But this is
academic anyway, you need a new compiler (preferably >= 3.2) for anything
non-trivial anyway, so...

-- 
Dimi.