Re: [PATCH] 2.5.27 sysctl

On 22 Jul, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:42:07PM +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
>> 
>>>This is making the sysctl code acutally be written in C.
>>>It wasn't mostly due to georgeous ommitted size array "forward
>>>declarations". As a side effect it makes the table structure easier to
>>>deduce.
>> 
>> 
>> Please don't remove the trailing commas in the enums.  they make adding
>> to them much easier and are allowed by gcc (and maybe C99, I'm not
>> sure).
> 
> It's an GNU-ism. If you have any problem with "adding vales", just
> invent some dummy end-value. I have a problem with using -pedantic.
> 

Trailing commas in enums were NOT allowed before C99. C99 allows them,
and gcc and some other compilers allowed this syntax before C99. 
Since the kernel is going to use the .field= (C99) syntax for structure
initialisers anyway, I don't see any point in removing trailing commas.
(Especially not in code I once wrote :-))

As an aside, the fact that gcc warns about them is probably a compiler
bug: (http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html)
'In some places, -pedantic warnings don't take proper account of the
standard version selected.'

Bart

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