Hi,

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 04:26:14PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> >
> > > Not that I care that much, and I don't know what is done in git 
> > > usually. But aren't C99 initializer safer ? (wrt struct 
> > > transport_ops API possible changes in the future).
> > 
> > No, they are not, since we do not allow such backwards 
> > incompatibilifiers to creep into git's code.
> 
> It has nothing to do with latest. I feel that if for some reason 
> transport_ops need a new function, it will break silentely, whereas if 
> you use:
> 
>  static const struct transport_ops bundle_transport = {
> +	.set_option    = NULL,
> [...]
> 
> It's pretty straightforward to extend the transport_ops API, afaict it's 
> what the kernel does e.g.. I wasn't suggesting anything else.

As far as I am concerned, this kind of depending on newer features (this 
_is_ C99, right?) will not happen.  So the discussion is moot.

Ciao,
Dscho

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