From: Andreas Schwab Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:13:02 GMT Subject: Re: [patch 00/16] Portability Patches for git-1.7.1 (v4) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100427175442.GB13626@coredump.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > Furthermore, if we do take such changes, how are we going to manage > portability going forward? Some constructs (like non-constant > initializers) make the code much easier to read. People _will_ submit > patches that use them. Is somebody going to be auto-building on all of > these platforms with vendor compilers to confirm that nothing is broken? You can use "gcc -pedantic" to find these portability problems. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."