Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes: > 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.
Interesting! I'll sneak in one decl-after-stmt in some of my projects and see if anyone complains too. Using decl-after-stmt can improve code readability so if it is possible to use, I'd like to make more use of it. /Simon
