[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: Remove a leftover comment about MSVC C99 support

Martin Storsjö martin at martin.st
Wed Oct 19 11:53:51 EEST 2022


Support for building with older versions of MSVC (with the
c99wrap/c99conv frontend) was removed in
ce943dd6acbfdfc40223c0fb24d4cad438e6499c.

Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin at martin.st>
---
 configure | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 6712d045d9..ed52212f93 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -4368,12 +4368,6 @@ case "$toolchain" in
         esac
     ;;
     msvc)
-        # Check whether the current MSVC version needs the C99 converter.
-        # From MSVC 2013 (compiler major version 18) onwards, it does actually
-        # support enough of C99 to build ffmpeg. Default to the new
-        # behaviour if the regexp was unable to match anything, since this
-        # successfully parses the version number of existing supported
-        # versions that require the converter (MSVC 2010 and 2012).
         cl_major_ver=$(cl.exe 2>&1 | sed -n 's/.*Version \([[:digit:]]\{1,\}\)\..*/\1/p')
         if [ -z "$cl_major_ver" ] || [ $cl_major_ver -ge 18 ]; then
             cc_default="cl.exe"
-- 
2.37.0 (Apple Git-136)



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