Re: Remain Calm: Designated initializer patches for 2.5

Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Fri, 19 Jul 2002 11:32:51 +1000


In message <E17VBcZ-0004oO-00@starship> you write:
> On Thursday 18 July 2002 05:22, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > GCC has understood both since forever, but the kernel took a wrong
> > bet, and we're better off setting a good example for 2.6 before we
> > start getting about 10,000 warnings.
>
> Next time, remember to bet on the ugliest looking one ;-)

I agreed, until I recently did a big grep to find these things. I now
concur with the C9X committee. ".foo = " is clearly distinguished
from bitfield declarations and labels, which "foo: " isn't.

Rusty.

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