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Re: [PATCH] C99 initializers for four nscd files


> On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Roland McGrath wrote:
> 
> > There is nothing I see wrong with this.  But I wonder, what is your
> > motivation for changing them?  glibc has always used (and will always use)
> > GCC extensions freely in its source code.
> 
> The old syntax has been obsolete since GCC 2.5 (the GCC 2.5 release notes
> said that the old syntax was replaced by what became the C99 syntax,
> making no mention that the old syntax stayed around, although the manual
> didn't reflect this until 3.0).  At some point the if (pedantic) around
> the deprecation warning will probably be removed.

Ok, thanks for the info.

In that case, we will certainly put changes to update this syntax into
glibc if folks want to send them in.


Thanks,
Roland


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