From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why named structs and unions? C11 supports anonymous structs and unions Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:18:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <223f1299-8dd8-4c0f-9aed-b216fa913042@email.android.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518473814 3443 195.159.176.226 (12 Feb 2018 22:16:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 22:16:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 12 23:16:49 2018 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 1elMOg-0007fV-1c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 23:16:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60233 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elMQh-0004E1-SS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:18:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45972) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elMQU-0004CG-6M for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:18:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elMQT-0007P2-DZ for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:18:18 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47988) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elMQI-00071E-UB; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:18:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1elMQI-0000VA-Ea; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:18:06 -0500 In-reply-to: <223f1299-8dd8-4c0f-9aed-b216fa913042@email.android.com> (message from Daniel Colascione on Sun, 11 Feb 2018 20:09:14 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:222698 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.