Regarding anonymous unions, etc.

[Sam Lantinga]

> 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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