Re: Compilers other than GCC and MSVC++

[Warren Young]

Chris Frey wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 05:43:11PM -0500, Spinka, Kristofer wrote:
> 
>>I would like to recommend that the __GNUC__ become the 
>>default in an "#else" block instead of a throwing a 
>>compiler error.
> 
> I suppose the compile would fail anyway if a compiler didn't have these
> strtoll-style functions.  I'd support converting the error to a warning.

I've thought this over, and for me it comes down to a question of 
standards.  Both strtoll() and the 'long long' types are part of C99, so 
I don't mind moving these to the #else clause of the ifdefs in question. 
It would be different if these things were truly compiler- or platform- 
dependent.