Junio C Hamano wrote: > We do allow a few selected C99 constructs in our codebase these > days, but this is not among them (yet). > > Reported-by: Carlo Arenas <carenas@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > transport.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Yes, gcc 4.8 fails to build without this: transport.c:1234:4: error: ‘for’ loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 mode for (struct ref *it = remote_refs; it; it = it->next) ^ transport.c:1234:4: note: use option -std=c99 or -std=gnu99 to compile your code Arguably it would be nice to use -std=gnu99 for better consistency between gcc versions, but it's moot here: avoiding the declaration in for loop initializer is more consistent with -Wdeclaration-after-statement anyway. Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks.