Re: Etherboot 5.5

Marty Connor wrote:

> With regard to code ugliness, I think there is only so much we can do.

Agreed, but in this particular case I meant the introduction of a new
variable. All other changes should result in identical object code, but
this one does not, and that was my concern.

> For efficiency and aesthetic reasons we use features that seem to
> change between various releases.  I am not certain if these changes are
> bugs, compatibility with ANSI C, or for other reasons. I would really
> like to understand what the deal is.

I don't know for sure either (since I am not programming much in C but
rather in C++ lately), but what I know is that unnamed structs/unions
neither work with very old nor very new compilers, so we should not use
them.


Georg



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