trailing comma compiler suuport (was: [PATCH] cipher: Add Classic McEliece mceliece6688128f.)

Jacob Bachmeyer jcb62281 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 19 04:10:37 CEST 2024


Werner Koch via Gcrypt-devel wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:57, Simon Josefsson said:
> [...]
>> Are pre-C99 compilers supported for real, or is this merely an obsolete
>> desired feature?  Do you have any example of a pre-C99 compiler that can
>>     
>
> [...]  But struct initializers and trailing commas are
> problematic (older but still used AIX and HPUX compilers).

Wait... I thought trailing commas in initializer lists had always been 
allowed, since the original K&R C, in order to facilitate tools that 
generate C code.  Is this incorrect or are those compilers outliers?  
(To be fair, this is history for me---when C89 was published, I was not 
old enough to type.)


-- Jacob



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