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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>, "Derrick Stolee" <stolee@gmail.com>,
	"Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ci: add job for gcc-4.8 to GitHub Actions
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:36:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbl5v50ev.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210817111512.GA2257957@szeder.dev> ("SZEDER Gábor"'s message of "Tue, 17 Aug 2021 13:15:12 +0200")

SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> writes:

>> IMHO it may be more trouble than it's worth. If we can't find a compiler
>> that complains on this construct, then maybe it is not a construct worth
>> worrying too much about.

Absolutely.  Of course, there are vendor compilers that are not GNU
or clang that may throw us surprises ;-)

> I for one like for loop initial declarations, because they allow us to
> limit the scope of the loop variable to the loop, and would love to
> see it used in more places (well, wherever possible, actually, but
> that'd be a lot of churn).  So I would prefer to just drop this job
> sooner rather than later, update CodingGuidelines, and, if deemed
> necessary, launch a weather balloon.

I'd agree in general, but it must be done in a bit different order,
i.e. weather balloon first.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-17 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-16  4:57 [PATCH] ci: add job for gcc-4.8 to GitHub Actions Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2021-08-16 16:06 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-08-16 16:18   ` Jeff King
2021-08-17 11:15     ` SZEDER Gábor
2021-08-17 15:15       ` Jeff King
2021-08-17 19:36       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-08-16 16:58   ` Carlo Arenas

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