[Mono-devel-list] Compiling mono and GCC versions

[eric lindvall]

It seems some check-ins to mono/metadata/reflection.c (and other files)
have broken the CVS mono build for people running GCC versions before
3.something (like 2.95.3) by making use of some of the C99 features like
mixing declarations and code.

If this was intentional (and it is going to continue to happen), it would
be cool to update the configure script to automatically check that you
have at least gcc 3.<whatever is needed> or fail.

If it was not intenional, using the correct "-std=.." setting to enforce
the version of the C spec that people should be coding for would help in
reducing problems like this.

thanks

e.