On: Microsoft, please support (at least a tiny bit of) C99

There are exactly 2 features which were mandatory in C99 and are optional in C11: variable-length arrays and complex types.

C11 adds some non-optional features whch needs compiler support (alignment specifiers, type-generic selections, unicode literals, ...).

Do you really think vendors which don' care about C99 will suddenly jump to implement all mandatory C11 features?

Since it means not having to support VLAs, yes.

One is not obligated to support all features of a standard in order to support some, a reality Microsoft has consistently availed itself of during its existence.

So by your standards, Microsoft is doing quite well. After all, they do support parts of C99 such as stdint.h.

You really have no idea what my standards are. All I did was say they didn't have to support VLAs to support other parts of C99. That tells you absolutely nothing, stop assuming so much.