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The Linux Kernel Looks to "Bite the Bullet" in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions

• nacozarina 1y ago
  try to imagine this being reciprocated by Microsoft, then realize how self-defeating the concession is
• tonetegeatinst 1y ago
  Is the Microsoft C extension an open spec that is impliented and supported in non Microsoft compilers?
  • ThrowawayR2 1y ago
    That question is answered in the second paragraph of the article.
  • zzo38computer 1y ago
    It says that GCC and Clang support such extensions (I have used it before, with GCC).
• sedatk 1y ago
  According to this comment[1], `-fms-extensions` flag adds C11 anonymous unions along with some properietary MS syntax[2]. In case this gets added, and Linux team later wants to go ahead with full C11 adoption and drop `-fms-extensions` in the future, wouldn't it cause headaches? [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/56554568/54937 https://stackoverflow.com/a/56554568/54937 [2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-studio-2013/z2cx9y4f(v=vs.120)?redirectedfrom=MSDN https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualst...