From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why not C99 designated initializer syntax?
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:29:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c299ff12-f897-4ecc-feff-764803650bc5@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <r025twa83j72.fsf@dancol.org>
On 12/12/2016 01:56 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> Why are we writing code like this?
Because I remembered the old GNU C syntax, and forgot that C99
standardized on a different syntax. Sorry about that. Should be fixed now.
It is amusing that nobody noticed until now. I guess GNU C syntax is
pretty widely supported, even among non-GNU compilers.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-12 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-12 21:56 Why not C99 designated initializer syntax? Daniel Colascione
2016-12-12 22:07 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-12-12 22:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-12-12 22:29 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
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