Dear Kumar Gala, In message <4a0b9aaa-4714-4c27-84a7-22fce4d91...@freescale.com> you wrote: > I was wondering if there was any reason we avoid C99 features in u- > boot source. > > Specifically the ability to declare variables in the middle of > functions.
One reason is that I consider such code extremely ugly and hard to read and understand. > There are a slew of places that we have something like: ... > #ifdef CONFIG_COOL_FEATURE > u32 myvarrocks = foo * bar * bar; > > gd->neato = myvarrocks > #endif It would be even better to avoid such #ifdef's, or at least the need for such special local variables. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. - Gerard Straub, television producer and author (stolen from Frank Herbert??) _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
