> On Jan 23, 2019, at 5:09 AM, Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > AFAICS this only applies to switch statements (because they jump to a > case and don't execute stuff at the start of the block), not blocks > after if/while/... . It bothers me that we are going out of our way to deprecate valid C constructs in favor of placing the declarations elsewhere. As current compiler warnings would catch any reference before initialization usage anyway, it seems like we are letting a compiler warning rather than the language standard dictate syntax. Certainly if we want to make it a best practice coding style issue we can, and then an appropriate note explaining why should be added to Documentation/process/coding-style.rst.
