- * GCC is stated as a dependency. In fact the code is mostly standard C,
- with C99 initializers, long long and possibly the occasional // comment as
- the main departures from C89. Additional GCCisms will be accepted if it's
- impractical to avoid them. At least one active user is still using GCC
- 2.95, so extensions that only appear in later versions are to be avoided
- for the time being.
+ * GCCisms such as typeof and C99isms such as mixed declarations and named
+ structure initializers are used; the configure script asks for -std=gnu99
+ by default. Some supported platforms are still on GCC 4.0.