In article <38562588@news.povray.org> , Nieminen Juha 
<war### [at] punarastascstutfi>  wrote:

>   I still think that most compilers (C or C++) have some kind of option to
> make it a strict ANSI C compiler.

I am not sure if Visual does...

>   These kind of hybrid compilers are bad IMHO. They are not C compilers nor
> C++ compilers. They are some kind of mutation between the two.

Yes, too true!  That is the price we have to pay in the GUI age ;-)

> :  Did you try
> : to force GCC to compile the files as C++ code?
>
>   Yes, but it didn't work. It has some illegal code when compiling as C++.

Old style function headers, right? There were still a few left in Superpatch
and I guess they still are.

BTW, do you have any problems compiling the official version with strict
ANSI set and/or as C++?  For me that works just fine and I am curious if it
also works under gcc.


      Thorsten


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