From: Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.fi>
To: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org
Cc: Hongzheng Wang <wanghz@gmail.com>, help-gsl@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Help-gsl] GSL and C99 standard
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080411124025.GC24451@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wsn5irwq.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk>
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 05:41:25PM +0100, Brian Gough wrote:
> I would like to keep C89 compatibility, which limits the extent to
> which any new features can be used.
Are there many users that can not support any C99 features?
I think the the relevant question is which C99 features, not the whole
feature set. For example, I would like to use named initializers for
structures as they make code more maintainable and easier to read:
C89:
struct foo bar;
memset(&bar, 0, sizeof bar);
bar.name = value;
C99:
struct foo bar = {.name = value};
gcc has supported this feature for ages already..
--
Heikki Orsila
heikki.orsila@iki.fi
http://www.iki.fi/shd
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <b954b2060804090947j2574cf96y4ce9262b2fd55e77@mail.gmail.com>
2008-04-10 16:42 ` Brian Gough
2008-04-10 19:19 ` Gerard Jungman
2008-04-11 8:00 ` Hongzheng Wang
2008-04-11 12:41 ` Heikki Orsila [this message]
2008-04-15 10:37 ` Brian Gough
2008-04-15 11:00 ` Heikki Orsila
2008-04-15 15:12 ` Hongzheng Wang
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