>>23Oh how wonderful, and it only took them a decade and a half to implement what every other major compiler vendor had by 2001. At this rate, maybe C11 will be supported before the century is up.
What's with the delays? Could it be that it is difficult to maintain? I wonder what the internals look like. I bet it's all gross like GCC, but filled with Enterpriseisms too. Or maybe the problem is that they were using SourceSafe to work on the codebase for all those years, and the daily database corruptions are what held it back.
>>24The upside of this is that if you write for VS, you'll be using a subset that every other compiler pretty much any compiler down to OpenWatcom will be able to work with it. As long as you avoid anything in
Windows.h
of course.
But then, why are you using VS?