Re: CVS commit: src/sys/sys (protosw.h:1.39)

[Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore%tadpole.com@localhost>]

David Laight wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:29:29PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>   
>> Perhaps we should be using explicit structure initializers instead, e.g.
>>
>> struct foo aFoo = {
>>      .foo_field = 1,
>>      .foo_member = "woot",
>> };
>>     
>
> However we can't do that for tools that has to go through a system's
> native C compiler.
> Guess which one doesn't support it :-)
>
>       David
>
>   

Shouldn't any C99 supporting compiler support this? If nothing else,
users can bootstrap a native GCC, if their own native compilers are not
up to snuff.

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