Re: coreutils-6.5: yet another C89 problem

[Jim Meyering]

Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> wrote:

> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>>> This will keep me from releasing decl-after-stmt code in coreutils/src:
>> This inspired me to try harder for an automated check for departures
>> from C89. [snip]
>
> Thanks, both! Since this is the most common C89 deviation (and one that
> is usually purely cosmetic and avoided with few or no adverse effects),
> I think this will help keep gnulib/coreutils c89 compatible (or at least
> compatible with most non-c99 compilers).

FYI, for coreutils/src/*.c you'll still have to apply the patch.
This guarantees that the patch does its job.