Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755880AbYC2Srs (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:47:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753979AbYC2Srg (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:47:36 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:43249 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754117AbYC2Srg (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:47:36 -0400 From: Andreas Schwab To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Mikael Pettersson , Jacek Luczak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Comma at end of enum lists References: <47EE75A0.8070705@gmail.com> <18414.31274.514325.238985@harpo.it.uu.se> X-Yow: Is it FUN to be a MIDGET? Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:47:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Jan Engelhardt's message of "Sat\, 29 Mar 2008 19\:24\:27 +0100 \(CET\)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1265 Lines: 35 Jan Engelhardt writes: > On Saturday 2008-03-29 19:13, Andreas Schwab wrote: >>> In a language with strict a comma-as-separator rule you can >>> get this benefit by placing the comma before new items rather >>> than after existing items: >>> >>> enum { FOO >>> ,FIE >>> ,FUM >>> }; >>> >>> but luckily C doesn't need this perversion. >> >> Only since C99 (but GNU C never needed it either). > > C had this for much longer than 99. Borland Turbo C from around 1990 > (which you can expect to be C89 if you have luck) also allows , at the end. C89 definitely does not allow a comma at the end of the enumerator list (only at the end of the initializer list). If Borland C allows it in its strict C89 mode (if it has such a thing) then it is buggy. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/