From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:29:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] strbuf: add compound literal test balloon
Message-ID: <ecca4252-1c29-4661-a454-a4cedc28bead@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqqzyhifrr.fsf@gitster.g>

On 15/07/2025 17:24, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> That sounds good.  I was wondering if it is easier to keep track of
> things to add a new section to the CodingGuildlines document,
> perhaps like this?

That's a good idea

Thanks

Phillip

>   Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 8 ++++++++
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git c/Documentation/CodingGuidelines w/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
> index 6350949f2e..dd3dbb9c57 100644
> --- c/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
> +++ w/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
> @@ -298,6 +298,14 @@ For C programs:
>      . since late 2021 with 44ba10d6, we have had variables declared in
>        the for loop "for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)".
>   
> +   C99 features we have test balloons for:
> +
> +   . since late 2024 with v2.48.0-rc0~20, we have test balloons for
> +     compound literal syntax, e.g., (struct foo){ .member = value };
> +     our hope is that no platforms we care about have trouble using
> +     them, and officially adopt its wider use in mid 2026.  Do not add
> +     more use of the syntax until that happens.
> +
>      New C99 features that we cannot use yet:
>   
>      . %z and %zu as a printf() argument for a size_t (the %z being for