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On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 8:48 AM enh <e...@google.com> wrote:
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> ping?
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 7:52 PM Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/26/24 07:13, enh via Toybox wrote:
> > >> Don't know Rob cares about this, but ?: is not ISO C. It's a GNU
> > >> extension.
> >
> > Specifically https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-14.1.0/gcc/Conditionals.html
> >
> > > with 80 existing uses of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_operator
> > > in toybox, i'm pretty sure rob knows this already :-)
> >
> > Yeah, and it's been discussed multiple times over the years, starting with
> > http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2012-April/013359.html
> > where we were already looking into the portability of it.
> >
> > I should try to dig something up to put in code.html but the decision way 
> > back
> > when was "if the 2.6 kernel needed it to build, toybox is probably ok 
> > relying on
> > it being there" because we exist in an ecosystem. (The fact I maintained a
> > tinycc fork for 3 years trying to extend it to make tccboot work with 
> > current
> > vanilla source may have influenced this. :)
> >
> > I _thought_ this was recorded somewhere in code.html or design.html but 
> > it's not
> > the easiest thing to grep for. There's several links at
> > https://landley.net/toybox/cleanup.html#advice but this isn't one of them...
> >
> > There's a couple others things like this, "int x=x;" to shut up the stupid 
> > gcc
> > "is never used uninitialized" warnings comes to mind (although that's 
> > migrated
> > to a QUIET macro that does conditional zero initialization)...
> >
> > Rob
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