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  • From what I can see, the GNU Compiler Collection supports this flag, so you can still build it with 100% free software.

    Basically, it’s just behavior that doesn’t align with the C standard, but was introduced by MS. Then, GCC added a compiler flag which makes it behave like that, so that you can build code that requires that behavior.

    It doesn’t seem to actually be dependent on MS, rather it’s named after them because it emulates the way their compiler works. I hope no Linux maintainers would entertain the idea of making it dependent on a non-free compiler.
















  • Is that an americanism? I always found it silly in the age of digital type but there are still people who insist two spaces is correct and you can’t do it any other way.

    I had assumed it was some typewriter related thing, that with the fixed width space the typewriter can do it looks better with two spaces or something?

    Is this not a thing outside of the US, and everyone has always used one space? How did the two spaces start???