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Cc: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@FreeBSD.org>, Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru>,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r183881 - head/sys/netinet
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Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> writes:
> style(9) doesn't allow the C99 declaration since C99 hasn't noticed that
> C99 exists.

I vote for style(9)'s continued ignorance of C99 declarations.

The only case in which I can see a net benefit is for one-off loop
variables, and even there the benefit is probably not sufficient to
justify the loss of compatibility with older compilers.

DES
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