How can I tell Visual Studio/Microsoft's C compiler to allow variable declarations after the first statement?

Question

I have code that compiles on the GNUARM compiler, but Visual Studio 2010 issues errors. The issue involves declaring variables after the first statement in a C language file

Answer 1

As of Visual Studio 2013, the Visual C++ compiler supports C99 style variable declarations. More details can be found in:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/06/28/c-11-14-stl-features-fixes-and-breaking-changes-in-vs-2013.aspx