> To add it to the pain, VLC is a mostly C99 project, but C99 is too new a standard for Microsoft to implement it :)

Hah, better than that, Herb Stutter explicitly stated they don't give a flying fuck about C99: http://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-and...

> If you really need [...] features in C95/C99/C11 that are not part of ISO C++[, use] a different compiler