Subject: Re: [PATCH] strbuf: use designated initializers in STRBUF_INIT

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:10:58 +0200

On Jul 10 2017, Jeff King <[email-masked]> wrote:

> If this patch can survive a few releases without complaint,
> then we can feel more confident that designated initializers
> are widely supported by our user base.  It also is an
> indication that other C99 features may be supported, but not
> a guarantee (e.g., gcc had designated initializers before
> C99 existed).

Note that the GNU C designated initializers initially used a different
syntax than the one C99 adopted.

Andreas.

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