Re: [PATCH 1/2] parse-options: add int value pointer to struct option

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Date: Sep 18, 2023, 11:34 UTC
Message-ID: <29780299-b3a2-4f4a-b236-ba6fbd24b6a3@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ZP+UgvIon1lrIFa+@ugly>

On Tue, Sep 12, 2023, at 00:28, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:

> i'd go the opposite way and make it an anonymous union.
> that would require c11, though. imo not exactly an outrageous 
> proposition in 2023, but ...

Moving to C11 would get pushback because not all platforms that people care about support that compiler.[1]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/004601d8ed6b$13a2f580$3ae8e080$@nexbridge.com/

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Kristoffer Haugsbakk

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