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Re:Beautiful Native Libraries by gliaskos on Monday August 19, 2013 @06:17AM (#6236412)
This year at build was reported that vs 2013 will have C99 support (not complete).

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/07/19/c99-librar...

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Re:Beautiful Native Libraries by masklinn on Monday August 19, 2013 @06:21AM (#6236421)
This is, as previously, support for the C standard library in its capacity as a (qualified) subset of the C++ standard library.

VS will have no more C99 support that what was previously stated by Stutter: it will support the common subset of C and C++.

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Re:Beautiful Native Libraries by plorkyeran on Monday August 19, 2013 @10:14AM (#6237306)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/06/28/cpp-con... lists some non-library C99 features not in C++.
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Re:Beautiful Native Libraries by binarycrusader on Monday August 19, 2013 @05:14PM (#6239897)
That isn't true; as part of the C++11 support Visual Studio is getting, Microsoft is implementing more of C99 language support.

To quote the blog post the other person mentioned:

...the RTM version will also include a few tactical C99 language extensions when compiling C code...

You can thank the C++11 committee for that; they worked to bring the C11 standard into the fold with C++11.

It's going to become increasingly difficult for curmudgeonly vendors to refuse to support C11 if they support C++11.

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