On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 04:14:24 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> After [JDK-8292008](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8292008) and 
>> [JDK-8247283](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8247283), some C and C++ 
>> code across the JDK can be replaced and simplified with cleaner language 
>> features that were previously not available due to required compatibility 
>> with the now unsupported Visual C++ 2017 compiler. These cleanups were 
>> highlighted by the very briefly integrated 8296115
>> 
>> No changes to the behaviour of the JDK has resulted in any way from this 
>> commit
>
> Julian Waters has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   ATTRIBUTE_SCANF

Hi Julian,

unfortunately, your patch will make backporting more difficult. We cannot 
downport it to older releases compiled with older compilers. But since it 
touches a lot of files it will sit smack in the middle of patch sequences, 
requiring manual merges for patches after it.

Is there any benefit to using the new syntax compared to the old one? It does 
seem similar verbose, so I don't see any benefit there.

Cheers, Thomas

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11081

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