[asveikau]

Not meaning you to make you feel like you're inching towards the aggressive, I just feel like the distance between C89 and C99 is not a very big one. Even in C99 I tend to use some perhaps conservative style choices, and in this view the C99 stuff really does seem like "niceties" rather than essentials. The difference between C and C++ feels much bigger to me.

And then after all, you initially explained the need for this in terms of Windows-specific code (or at least that's how I read it), so that's the angle I took...