On Mon 2020-08-17 14:29:37, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 2:15 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Does anyone remember why we added this warning? I had always thought > > it's purpose was to ensure we stayed within our chosen dialect of C. > > As far as I'm concerned, that's the primary motivation. > > I'm not seeing why we'd suddenly allow the "put variable declarations > anywhere" when we've been able to keep from doing it until now. > > We're still building primarily good old K&R ANSI C, just with > extensions. Wild variable placement doesn't seem like a useful > extension. I certainly hope we are not going back to good old K&R C :-). Submitter believes "wild variable placement" can help with #ifdefs.. and that may be actually good tradeoff. Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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