From: Reece Dunn Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:34:45 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] Fix declare variable at mid of function Message-ID: <3f4fd2640908170934w4c48ada1o66745f845ecb7d49@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 2009/8/17 Johannes Schindelin : > Hi, > > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Frank Li wrote: > >> Some compiler such as MSVC can't support declear variable at mid of funtion at c file. > > Please wrap your commit messages after 76 characters. > >> >> Signed-off-by: Frank Li >> --- > > How about this instead? > >        Avoid declaration after instruction > >        Microsoft Visual C++ does not understand this C99 style. > > ? > > The patch itself is good. Shouldn't GCC be changed to use -std=c89 as well to pick up errors for compilers that don't support c99 (like the Microsoft Visual C++ C compiler)? - Reece