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Partially, mostly in the library area. It still has some troubles with actual C99 code: http://bellecrazysnail.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/some-thoughts-about-vis
by carloscm 12y ago
Partially, mostly in the library area. It still has some troubles with actual C99 code:
http://bellecrazysnail.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/some-thoughts-about-visual-studio-2013-c99-compiler/ http://bellecrazysnail.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/some-thought...
There's also some weird double personality issues going on with their compilers in MSVC2013, for example they support designated initializers in plain C but not in C++. So you get partial C99 inside pure C or C89 (MS flavored) under C++.
I forgot where I read the quote, but for a decade Microsoft saw the plain C compiler as tool exclusively meant for Windows development. While gcc and later clang adopted and embraced new C idioms, like the struct syntax I mention, they kept their plain C support frozen in time.
I also found weird behavior in MSVC when pushing the C preprocessor VERY hard (nested variadic macros. That would require an entire blog post for itself...)