From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:28:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/13] revert: Introduce struct to keep command-line options
Message-ID: <7vaadb7zn4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110621165854.GL15461@elie>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> ...
> The struct leaves out the variable "me".  A person might wonder why
> the above rationale applies to the other variables but not that one. :)

Good point.

>> Unfortunately, parsing strategy-option violates a C89 rule:
>> Initializers cannot refer to variables whose address is not known at
>> compile time.
>
> Reading this, one is led to wonder:
> ...
>  - is this a regression?

Let me add one.

 - how does this patch work around that issue?