On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:02:26AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > This is the biggest one, and I think it may be too soon. Also, we > need to be careful on the initialization side of things because we > currently have a lot of code that looks like: > > > struct foo *fp; > struct bar *bp; > > fp = get_foo(); > if (!fp) return; > bp = fp->bp; > > this can't easily be translated to the more natural: > > struct foo *fp = get_foo(); > struct bar *bp = fp->bp; > > since really you'd want to write: > > struct foo *fp = get_foo(); > if (!fp) return; > struct bar *bp = fp->bp; > > which isn't legal in 'C'.
I thought we were talking about C99, in which case this is perfectly legal. I certainly use it all the time in my C99 code. And I thought this was the point of this discussion, to be able to declare variables when you first use them. -- Rick C. Petty _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
