Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/sys (protosw.h:1.39)
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 08/29/2006 10:17:58
David Laight wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:29:29PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
>> Perhaps we should be using explicit structure initializers instead, e.g.
>>
>> struct foo aFoo = {
>> .foo_field = 1,
>> .foo_member = "woot",
>> };
>>
>
> However we can't do that for tools that has to go through a system's
> native C compiler.
> Guess which one doesn't support it :-)
>
> David
>
>
Shouldn't any C99 supporting compiler support this? If nothing else,
users can bootstrap a native GCC, if their own native compilers are not
up to snuff.
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