On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > It has nothing to do with latest. But it does. The "latest" being the compiler. A lot of people have old compilers, possibly even ones where there *are* no compiler versions that support C99. > I feel that if for some reason transport_ops need a new function The best way to handle that is to make sure you use ANSI C (which we *do* depend on), and strict prototypes everywhere. Then, any breakage will not be silent, because different functions will have different prototypes. Yes, C99 structure initializers are a good thing, and we use them in the linux kernel, but the kernel can make more assumptions about the compiler than a random user land tool can. So git should be more conservative than that. It wasn't that long ago that people avoided even ANSI C, on the grounds that some (totally broken crap) OS's shipped with just a K&R compiler by default, and you had to pay for the "fancy" ANSI C compiler. Now, *that* kind of ass-backwards compatibility is just stupid in this day and age (especially since the advantages of ANSI over K&R are just so huge), but at assuming everybody has C99 is not really realistic yet, and the things C99 brings aren't quite worth breaking old compiler setups for. (But we may be getting close to being able to assume C99. It's getting pretty common). Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
