From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why not C99 designated initializer syntax?
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:11:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r025lgvk3ii4.fsf@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkSVd1XudWFvcW_NxMJfe-q=8guWQf1xesCi6rCSgqpwsg@mail.gmail.com> (Philipp Stephani's message of "Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:07:05 +0000")
On Mon, Dec 12 2016, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> schrieb am Mo., 12. Dez. 2016 um 22:56 Uhr:
>
> Why are we writing code like this?
>
> struct font_driver const nsfont_driver =
> {
> type: LISPSYM_INITIALLY (Qns),
> case_sensitive: true,
> ...
> };
>
> and not like this?
>
> struct font_driver const nsfont_driver =
> {
> .type = LISPSYM_INITIALLY (Qns),
> .case_sensitive = true,
> ...
> };
>
> The former is a deprecated GCC extension. The latter is the standard.
> We need C99 these days anyway.
>
> Probably just an accident. There doesn't seem to be a ban on C99 designated initializers; for example, I've added
> some to emacs-module.c
An accident is possible. It's just curious that this syntax has
appeared in brand-new code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-12 22:11 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 [this message]
2016-12-12 22:29 ` Paul Eggert
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