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Thu, 24 Jul 2025 02:55:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 7027350d (TLSv1.3:TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256:256:NO); Thu, 24 Jul 2025 06:55:56 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:55:52 +0200 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: Junio C Hamano Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Phillip Wood Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: document test balloons in flight Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 12:31:26PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines > index c1046abfb7..0776d15a95 100644 > --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines > +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines > @@ -298,6 +298,14 @@ For C programs: > . since late 2021 with 44ba10d6, we have had variables declared in > the for loop "for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)". > > + C99 features we have test balloons for: > + > + . since late 2024 with v2.48.0-rc0~20, we have test balloons for > + compound literal syntax, e.g., (struct foo){ .member = value }; > + our hope is that no platforms we care about have trouble using > + them, and officially adopt its wider use in mid 2026. Do not add > + more use of the syntax until that happens. Nice. I like that we now have an explicit deadline for people to complain about this feature not being supported on their platform. So this looks good to me, thanks! Patrick