netdev - Re: [PATCH 01/22] orion5x: Replace comments with C99 initializers

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Date:   Mon, 28 Mar 2022 08:19:28 -0500
From:   Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/22] orion5x: Replace comments with C99 initializers

On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 08:23:31PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 5:58 PM Benjamin Stürz <benni@...erz.xyz> wrote:
> >
> > This replaces comments with C99's designated
> > initializers because the kernel supports them now.
> 
> The change looks fine, but the comment looks misplaced, as enum initializers
> are not c99 feature.

Yes, it is from C89/C90.

> Also, the named array and struct intializers have been
> supported by gnu89 for a long time and widely used in the kernel, so it's
> not a recent change even for the others.

GCC supports this since 1998.  There was a syntax different from C99
designated initializers (".ans = 42") before (namely, "ans: 42").

1998 is long enough ago for all intents and purposes now of course ;-)


Segher