From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:28:09 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] Fix declare variable at mid of function Message-ID: <7v1vnauto6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > How about this instead? > > Avoid declaration after instruction It's called declaration-after-statement. I always compile with "-Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Werror" (among other things; if you are interested, see "Make" script in 'todo' branch for details) but this being in compat/mingw.c, obviously it is outside of my coverage.