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Re: Regarding anonymous unions, etc.
- To: Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu>
- Subject: Re: Regarding anonymous unions, etc.
- From: Sam Lantinga <slouken@devolution.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:44:40 -0700
- Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, slouken@devolution.com
> I hear the GCC team is soliciting input as to how important
> Microsoft C++ extensions like anonymous unions, etc. are.
> I and the folks at Lokigames.com would dearly love to be able to
> port games from Win32 to Linux more easily. This is
> complicated by all the Microsoft-isms that won't compile
> under gcc. The more source code from the Windows world
> you can compile under gcc, the better, in my book.
FYI, the new patches from Mumit Khan, which appear to be integrated
into the latest CVS version of gcc/egcs, solve many of our problems
with anonymous structures and so forth.
Kudos to everyone who has been working on GCC. :)
-Sam Lantinga (slouken@devolution.com)
Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software
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