Visual C++ General
No, VC does not support C99 and probably won't for quite some time to come. There's support for a couple of C99 things (including for C++ mode), such as "long long", variadic macros, __restrict (which works like restrict), __FUNC* identifiers, __pragma (which is similar to _Pragma).
Of course, you might want to think about using C++ mode -- after all you don't have to use C++ features. But you get some things for free, e.g. stricter static type checks, initializers in loop and control constructs, declarations intermixed with statements etc.
-hg
Hello Holger, could you explain a little bit about "__FUNC* identifiers" Did you mean __func__
Thanks.
Yes, there's __FUNCDNAME__, __FUNCSIG__ and __FUNCTION__ in VC. The latter is similar to C99's __func__ but actually provides a bit more than that. While __func__ is a predefined identifier, __FUNCTION__ works much like a macro. For instance, you could create a wide character version of the function's name by using token pasting.
I believe, you could just #define __func__ __FUNCTION__ and get pretty much the C99 behavior. There might be some subtle differences (e.g. __FUNCTION__ could yield different pointers), but these seem to be rather academic.
-hg