On Mon 2020-08-17 14:29:37, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 2:15 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone remember why we added this warning?  I had always thought
> > it's purpose was to ensure we stayed within our chosen dialect of C.
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, that's the primary motivation.
> 
> I'm not seeing why we'd suddenly allow the "put variable declarations
> anywhere" when we've been able to keep from doing it until now.
> 
> We're still building primarily good old K&R ANSI C, just with
> extensions. Wild variable placement doesn't seem like a useful
> extension.

I certainly hope we are not going back to good old K&R C :-).

Submitter believes "wild variable placement" can help with
#ifdefs.. and that may be actually good tradeoff.

Best regards,
									Pavel
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