Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> wrote: > Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes: >> I vaguely recall feeling a slight twinge as I did that, >> but since coreutils proper has been using decl-after-stmt, >> for so long, I let it slide. > > How does that work? Do most compilers out there really support > decl-after-stmt (not likely?!), or do you offer a patch for users with > older compilers?
I used to maintain a patch, src/c99-to-c89.diff, that would perform the conversion, but stopped 4 or 5 months ago. It was not worth the trouble. So far, no one has complained. > A c992c89 tool would be nice, to downgrade code that uses > decl-after-stmt... That would be great. But soon it won't be necessary. c99 is 10 years old, after all.
