Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:31:08 +0200 | From | Marcin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: Remain Calm: Designated initializer patches for 2.5 |
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Rusty Russell wrote: > 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.
Of hand I think about the following *technical* points:
1. It resembles the usage case similar to other initalizations.
2. It makes for less reduce/reduce conflicts in the LR-grammar parser generator.
Its better and more outtought then the GNU "extension".
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