Re: [MERGE] Removed code handling K&R-style varargs.

Hi,

At 10.31 25/08/2008, Kinkie wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Guido Serassio
><guido.serassio_at_acmeconsulting.it> wrote:
> > Hi Amos, Kinkie,
> >
> > At 01.52 25/08/2008, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> >>
> >> > It should be a safe enough bet that any C++ compiler can handle
> >> > STDC-style varargs.
> >> > This patch removes all the (mostly spaghetti) code which used to handle
> >> > K&R-style varargs calls.
> >> >
> >> > Kinkie
> >> >
> >>
> >> The catch here is that .c files are not guaranteed to be built with a C++
> >> compiler. This will need wide testing.
> >
> > On Visual Studio .c files MUST be compiled in "C" mode. Building
> in C++ mode
> > will broke the link process cause the Visual Studio C++ function decoration
>
>Sure, that's no problem and I'm not suggesting we change that.
>The question is: does Visual Studio in C mode handle STDC-style
>varargs declarations?If I sent you a windows-line-terminated tarball
>of the sources with
>patch, would you be willing to test-run it?

This test currently cannot be done: Squid-3 HEAD is already broken on
Visual Studio since 2 - 3 months .... :-(

>Or alternatively, could I borrow a vmware image of a windows system
>with the dev-stack to test it out?

I have already considered such solution: it will be very useful to
have a development VM available somewhere.

But there is a problem:
Software licenses for Microsoft products.

Regards

Guido

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Received on Fri Aug 29 2008 - 13:39:03 MDT