[ofa-general] [PATCH 1/3 v2] libibmad. 2nd revision for WinOF portablity.

[Sean Hefty]

>For maintenance troubles start I will need to ensure that all fields in
>discussed array are placed in proper order even before the patch - there
>was never such requirement before and there are more than 200 fields. :(

Arlin did this work and it is included in his patch. 

>But my concern is even more general - if not using c99 initializations
>for arrays and structures will become a general requirement I will not
>happy - what is the point to have a good development tools with all those
>nice and useful things if we cannot use them? And finally I'm not about
>exotic extensions, it is standard stuff...
>
>BTW, did somebody try to raise this issue in WinOF? What is the reason
>to be closed with VC?

WinOF was copied on these mailings.  So far there has been zero support for
changing compilers.  (In fact, I've had to push back on branching the code.)
Windows drivers must be built using the WDK build environment, so WinOF has
adopted that build environment for all of their libraries and applications as
well.

- Sean