[Python-Dev] c99 comments in the 2.6 code base?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Christian Heimes <lists <at> cheimes.de> writes:
> 
> Ouch! This shouldn't have happend. I'm going to discuss the matter on 
> #python-dev. Perhaps --with-pydebug could add more restrict error 
> checking to the Makefile like -std=c89 -pedantic -Werror

As discussed on python-dev, I think it should also be added in release mode.
Some developers probably never compile in debug mode (*), and compiling in
release mode is useful when you want to do performance tuning.

(*) not thinking of anyone in particular !

Regards

Antoine.