From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Remain Calm: Designated initializer patches for 2.5
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:40:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D3662F6.1010206@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020717.232832.44968023.davem@redhat.com
David S. Miller wrote:
> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:32:35 -0700
>
> As far as I could tell, *ALL* of these changes broke text alignment in
> columns. It would have been a lot better if they had maintained
> spacing; I find the new code much more cluttered and hard to read.
>
> I have to admit that I hate the new syntax too. The GCC syntax is
> so much nicer.
The C99 syntax actually has some advantages (I believe it lets you
initialize array elements in a saner way), but my complaint had to do
with the fact that whitespace for alignment wasn't preserved.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-18 6:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-18 3:22 Remain Calm: Designated initializer patches for 2.5 Rusty Russell
2002-07-18 3:32 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-18 7:42 ` Rusty Russell
2002-07-18 6:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-18 6:28 ` David S. Miller
2002-07-18 6:40 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-07-18 6:53 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-18 6:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-18 7:33 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-18 7:46 ` Rusty Russell
2002-07-18 9:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-18 13:47 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-19 1:32 ` Rusty Russell
2002-07-19 7:31 ` Marcin Dalecki
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