From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, Emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why named structs and unions? C11 supports anonymous structs and unions
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:18:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1elMQI-0000VA-Ea@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <223f1299-8dd8-4c0f-9aed-b216fa913042@email.android.com> (message from Daniel Colascione on Sun, 11 Feb 2018 20:09:14 -0800)
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It has not been long enough since 2011 to desupport
prior C compilers. Let's wait another 3 years and see
what the situation is.
In the mean time, using accessor macros more often
would be equally clear and avoid imposing tool constraints.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-12 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-12 3:14 Why named structs and unions? C11 supports anonymous structs and unions Daniel Colascione
2018-02-12 3:56 ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-12 4:09 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-02-12 7:28 ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-12 20:22 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-02-12 20:37 ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-12 22:18 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-02-12 22:18 ` Richard Stallman
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