Comment on Microsoft, please support (at least a tiny bit of) C99Comments−Zarathust14ySurely Windows must use tons of C. I wonder what compiler internal devs are using. Archaic support of C seems more like a tactical choice than a laziness one in that case−zokier14yIt's probably all C++ -clean, so they can compile everything as C++.−4ad14yNo, you use whatever you want, in practice C is more used than C++ and C code is compiled with the C compiler, not C++ compiler.The tools used to build Windows, including compilers, are available as the free Windows Driver Kit (WDK): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487428Sometimes the compiler versions match those of the current Visual Studio release, but not always.−njs1234514yMaybe they've switched to using a C++ compiler and C linkage specifications..
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Surely Windows must use tons of C. I wonder what compiler internal devs are using. Archaic support of C seems more like a tactical choice than a laziness one in that case
It's probably all C++ -clean, so they can compile everything as C++.
No, you use whatever you want, in practice C is more used than C++ and C code is compiled with the C compiler, not C++ compiler.
The tools used to build Windows, including compilers, are available as the free Windows Driver Kit (WDK): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487428
Sometimes the compiler versions match those of the current Visual Studio release, but not always.
Maybe they've switched to using a C++ compiler and C linkage specifications..