[systemd-devel] [HEADS-UP] It's release time!

[Djalal Harouni]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 01:21:01AM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 17:53 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > Zbigniew suggest we should drop -Wdeclaration-after-statement. I am not
> > convinced that that would be a good idea since generally declarations
> > after statements are an abomination, and we should avoid them, and it is
> > nice if gcc warns about that.
> 
> Even if there can be reasonable style disagreements about exactly where
> to use mixed declarations, at least some uses of them are certainly
> beneficial. It's only a matter of getting used to reading them if you've
> only read old-style code before. I'm sure that if C had had mixed
> declarations from the beginning, nobody would come up with a coding
> style which declared that particular feature to be harmful.
> 
> Given systemd's approach to features, I think it's pretty ironic if its
> coding style has a "you can't expect me to get used to new features"
> attitude to something that's been used for more than a decade.
For a language with a garbage collection mechanism, it's easy to write
declarations and forget about them... but for C the human is the one
who will find them and do the job...

Even if systemd uses GCC __attribute__ ((cleanup)) (this is a new feature)
IMHO we still need that flag.

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Djalal Harouni
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