From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Why not C99 designated initializer syntax? Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:56:33 -0800 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481579838 4261 195.159.176.226 (12 Dec 2016 21:57:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:57:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 12 22:57:14 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cGYas-0000Eg-QI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:57:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33756 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGYaw-0006yn-Sb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:57:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGYaP-0006yP-MW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:56:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGYaP-0005Mm-57 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:56:41 -0500 Original-Received: from dancol.org ([2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3]:36122) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGYaO-0005MV-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:56:41 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dancol.org; s=x; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:Subject:To:From; bh=uUW0MJ8nRRbBrIeslkBDtxKwOIQn0d4g7zhuca/5AJ0=; b=Lv/YyLetotXdXwDyDvCeVF9zBzlhFT3YfNNU8Qatd/uy6RmcQl9dYCJQXgF7rtJ+FksOdHpk309tUzQjdTGA0qM/lYRF/HwQd93RA7DZ6Rvir0VJ0T1gcxWmPyTSLiWLtR88pTRAR6go4BpOXhfqOJV3K3Cmww8crmwe6TsDJoyZgAUNKLd7gTsDmJ9xQ+uKdZhkB91AdFY96LVDtrxOxvXbz8McplVIM0VFSCMdcdtRloZaIILkR/OVdKacBEW57Dcrk3FUzqktfT4dZ4FqJOi81pjf94sC2R4MBUIzVg+HiZIqDmKcF75FqMBbf05gBGd/9M9zG9yKeRNw0qMeHA==; Original-Received: from [2620:0:1008:1101:7d84:5c03:5e28:8df] (helo=thule.roam.corp.google.com) by dancol.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cGYaN-0005X5-Er for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:56:39 -0800 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210378 Archived-At: 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.