<div><div>Hi Simon,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for responding! I thought my email was going to get lost in the August dustbin, so I opened a new issue on xfce4-dev-tools soon after (which I should have done from the start ^^):<br></div><div><a href="https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-dev-tools/-/issues/52">https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-dev-tools/-/issues/52</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>So I propose to continue the discussion there for anyone interested.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Gaël<br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="protonmail_quote">
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<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Gaël!</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry for the late reply.</div><div>I guess I'm responsible for some of those macros in Xfce's codebase. At the time I was not aware that only GCC and Clang could compile them, but as the projects using them have been released and out there for a while my guess would be that we don't worry too much about other compilers?</div><div><br></div><div>I found them convenient to use, that's all. So I don't have a strong opinion here...<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Simon<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:24 PM Gaël Bonithon <<a href="mailto:trash.paradise@protonmail.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">trash.paradise@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div>Hi,<br></div><div><br></div><div>It seems that only two projects use these macros at the moment: libxfce4ui and xfce4-settings. More precisely, they are g_autoptr() and g_autofree.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I was wondering to what extent the use of these macros could be extended to other projects, or if it could be a problem, since only GCC and Clang can compile them.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Do we have to worry about other compilers? Do you have any other comments on this subject?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Gaël</div></div></div><div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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