[Xcb] xcb/util-image
Arnaud Fontaine
arnaud at andesi.org
Sun Dec 19 20:49:34 PST 2010
Hi,
>> I'm about to push the split xcb-util repositories (I made a patch
>> for Awesome to test that everything is fine and it seems to be).
>> I have attached two "cleanup" patches for xcb/util-image I'm
>> about to push at the same time.
Rémi Cardona> It looks like your second patch declares variables
Rémi Cardona> after the first statement...
Yes it does but as we are using c99 and unless there is any coding style
defined somewhere that recommend to not do so, this is not an issue,
isn't it?
>> About GCC warnings, I don't really understand why there is
>> -Wdeclaration-after-statement in xorg-macros.m4 because
>> AC_PROG_CC_C99 is used and otherwise it would display the
>> warning. Any idea? (I'm Cc'ing Gaetan as well as he is the
>> maintainer of xorg-macros).
Gaetan Nadon> The addition of AC_PROG_CC_C99 is relatively
Gaetan Nadon> recent. There are about 100 + modules which still have
Gaetan Nadon> AC_PROG_CC in their configure.ac which overrides
Gaetan Nadon> AC_PROG_CC_C99. It is still useful at the moment and
Gaetan Nadon> it will always be needed for existing tarballs, not
Gaetan Nadon> that it would matter terribly as it does not affect
Gaetan Nadon> generated object code.
Gaetan Nadon> It's next to impossible to "remove" anything from
Gaetan Nadon> CWARNFLAGS due to backward compatibility.
Thanks for the explanation.
Cheers,
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Arnaud Fontaine
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