Named initialisers and other hilarity

[Matthieu Herrb]

Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> I was diving through some KDrive code today and it annoyed me enough to
> wonder seriously about named initialisers.  A quick straw poll on IRC
> suggests that we really want named initialisers, inlines (goodbye
> hundred-line macros of despair), mixed code and declarations[0], and
> variadic macros (goodbye DPRINTF((x))).
> 
> Are there any platforms that either support 7.x, or will realistically
> support 7.x quite soon, that don't support these features?  Full C99
> compliance is uninteresting since a) the features aren't that
> interesting, and b) gcc doesn't even do it; but mandating those four
> specific features would be magic.

Some of our (OpenBSD) architectures still use gcc 2.95. Please don't use 
features that aren't supported by this compiler.

-- 
Matthieu Herrb