Re: Does anyone still feel strongly about -Wdeclaration-after-statement ?

2024-07-31 Thread Olivier Fourdan
Hey, On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 2:49 AM Alan Coopersmith < alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: > […] > Do we want to keep insisting on this as part of our style, or have people > gotten used to it from other languages/projects now and are willing to > accept it in X.Org code? > I reckon having the

Re: Does anyone still feel strongly about -Wdeclaration-after-statement ?

2024-07-31 Thread Ismael Luceno
On 31/Jul/2024 00:31, Jeremy Sequoia wrote: <...> > I'd even go farther and say that we should allow code that requires C11. C11 might be slightly problematic in some platforms, but C99 is currently widely available and has 99% of the interesting stuff...

Re: Does anyone still feel strongly about -Wdeclaration-after-statement ?

2024-07-31 Thread Jeremy Sequoia
I feel very strongly that we should be able to leverage language features that have existed for longer than college graduates have been alive and should remove warnings designed to ensure we maintain compatibility with compilers that existed when pinball machines were all the rage. I'd even go