Re: [Mingw-users] GCC compiled code very slow compared to MS Visual C

[Bruce C. <br...@cr...>]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:32:07 +0000 (GMT)
Chris Wilson <ch...@qw...> wrote:

> So they had a business incentive to spend a lot of money on making
> the compiler produce really fast code (maybe a long time ago), but
> they never really had an incentive to add language features.

I think Microsoft haven't implemented C99 because most customers build
C code using the C++ compiler since it's seen as a "better C", so
there's very little demand now for anything other than C++0x.

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/531634/support-iso-c99-standard
has a response from Microsoft.

-- 
Bruce Cran