Subject: Re: [PATCH] strbuf: add compound literal test balloon

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:01:52 -0700

Phillip Wood <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 15/07/2025 17:24, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> That sounds good.  I was wondering if it is easier to keep track of
>> things to add a new section to the CodingGuildlines document,
>> perhaps like this?
>
> That's a good idea
>
> Thanks
>
> Phillip

I guess I dropped the ball after this exchange.  So our tentative
conclusion was to drop your new test balloon, and replace it with
the documentation patch you are responding to, which I obviously
am OK with.

Let me make it happen.

Thanks.

>
>>   Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 8 ++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>> diff --git c/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
>> w/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
>> index 6350949f2e..dd3dbb9c57 100644
>> --- c/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
>> +++ w/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
>> @@ -298,6 +298,14 @@ For C programs:
>>      . since late 2021 with 44ba10d6, we have had variables declared in
>>        the for loop "for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)".
>>   +   C99 features we have test balloons for:
>> +
>> +   . since late 2024 with v2.48.0-rc0~20, we have test balloons for
>> +     compound literal syntax, e.g., (struct foo){ .member = value };
>> +     our hope is that no platforms we care about have trouble using
>> +     them, and officially adopt its wider use in mid 2026.  Do not add
>> +     more use of the syntax until that happens.
>> +
>>      New C99 features that we cannot use yet:
>>        . %z and %zu as a printf() argument for a size_t (the %z
>> being for