What I was trying to say is that if you're comfortable using modern C++ and try ...

duskwuff · on Aug 29, 2023

The newer C features that you're most likely to feel the lack of in an older compiler are:

1) Mixed declarations and code. All variables must be declared at the top of a basic block.

2) Along similar lines, declaring variables in control statements like for().

3) // comments. (Hardly a critical feature, but you're probably used to having them.)

Perhaps not coincidentally, I think these were all features which began their life in C++, and were backported to C in C99.

ido · on Aug 30, 2023

IIRC they were also available as “non-standard” feature in compilers at the time before being added to c99 (e.g. I’m pretty sure gcc in the late 90s supported all of these if you didn’t force c89 compatibility).

_2z1p · on Aug 29, 2023

Sorry, I misread your comment, that makes a lot more sense now!