Re: C99

On 07/17/2013 05:22 AM, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Perhaps it is time to move on and start requiring a C99 compiler for GDB.
> But "//" comments are offensive to real C programmers!;)
>
> Seriously though.  This points out that such a switch has some
> consequences for our coding standards.  We have a fairly consistent
> coding style in GDB, which makes it easy for people to move around in
> the codebase without getting distracted by the "looks" of the code.  I
> think it's worth some effort to keep it that way.  And allowing "//"
> comments isn't going to help.  I'd vote for not using them at all.
>

+1.  Probably we can move to C99 now.  Personally, I prefer "/* */" to 
"//" in the comments.

> However, a more important C99 "misfeature" that affects the coding
> standard is the possibility to declare varaibles anywhere in the code.
> We should not allow this, except for declaring loop variables in a
> for() statement.

I agree.

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Yao (齐尧)