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Date:      Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:46:06 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r185356 - head/sys/dev/ixgbe
Message-ID:  <20081127104606.GA71968@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:38:05AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> 2008/11/27 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no>:
> > "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@gmail.com> writes:
> >> And at least the newer GEOM code also uses c99 variable declarations
> >> (not only for initializers - they were c99 from the start).
> >
> > I'm curious about what you mean with "c99 variable declarations".  If
> > you are referring to loop variable declarations, I can only find two
> > cases, both in g_linux_lvm.c.  Other than that and mixing declarations
> > with statements (which style(9) explicitly forbids), there is no
> > difference between c89 to c99 as far as variable declarations are
> > concerned.
>=20
> Yes, but not only loops - I mean things like:
>=20
> if () {
>   struct *something abc;
>   int y;
>   ...
> }
>=20
> You'll probably find my code is one the biggest users of this style
> but I've only started using it when I saw it already used.

That construct is allowed in C89 as well.





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Erik Trulsson
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