8 Apr
2009
8 Apr
'09
9:28 p.m.
Dear Kumar Gala,
In message 4A0B9AAA-4714-4C27-84A7-22FCE4D91DDA@freescale.com you wrote:
I was wondering if there was any reason we avoid C99 features in u- boot source.
Specifically the ability to declare variables in the middle of functions.
One reason is that I consider such code extremely ugly and hard to read and understand.
There are a slew of places that we have something like:
...
#ifdef CONFIG_COOL_FEATURE u32 myvarrocks = foo * bar * bar;
gd->neato = myvarrocks #endif
It would be even better to avoid such #ifdef's, or at least the need for such special local variables.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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