Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list <[email protected]> writes:
> Here comes the second part: Only the single-variable 'for' loops,
> and only in lib/.
Thanks! I got most of them in Coreutils, inspired by your changes [1].
Semi-related, but did pre-standard C not allow initialize variables upon
declaring them?
See this code copied from Coreutils src/basename.c:
static void
remove_suffix (char *name, char const *suffix)
{
char *np;
char const *sp;
np = name + strlen (name);
sp = suffix + strlen (suffix);
[...]
}
Or maybe there was a requirement that expression was constant?
I thought about cleaning some of that up, but don't know the history
behind it.
Collin
[1]
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/be22a577933302b25a6edbae6d834d52d478e753
