To: Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (trivial 2.5.74) compilation fix
 drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
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From: junkio@cox.net
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 03:42:15 -0700
In-Reply-To: <86llvgkk59.fsf@trasno.mitica> (Juan Quintela's message of
 "Thu, 03 Jul 2003 11:57:22 +0200")
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>>>>> "JQ" == Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

>>>>> "junkio" == junkio  <junkio@cox.net> writes:
junkio> C does not let us declare variables in the middle of a block (yet).

JQ> It depends what do you call C :)
JQ> C99 does.

That is an inappropriate comment in this list.  As far as the
kernel code is concerned, Documentation/Changes defines what C
is :-), and it says "GCC 2.95.3 or later".

Since 2.95.3 does not support declaration-in-the-middle,
decl-in-the-middle is not a valid C (yet).  On the other hand,
other C99 extentions that compiler can grok (e.g. '.FIELDNAME ='
style initializer) is now already part of valid C :-).

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