On 04/06/2010 09:03 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
I prefer to avoid even the semblance of dead stores
for the odd-numbered elements. I've committed the following
change on a private-for-now "old-compilers" branch.
I'll see how much trouble it is to carry this one change
through the upcoming development. If the branch survives and
grows, I may eventually publish it.
From 4aeebc7febb4ccd49ecffd0181159c0dd866642c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering<[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 20:59:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] avoid C99 auto initializer syntax
* src/dfa.c (in_coll_range): Initialize explicitly. For z/OS.
---
src/dfa.c | 8 +++++++-
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/dfa.c b/src/dfa.c
index ca32b66..ef878f2 100644
--- a/src/dfa.c
+++ b/src/dfa.c
@@ -375,7 +375,13 @@ static unsigned char const *buf_end; /* reference to
end in dfaexec(). */
static int
in_coll_range (char ch, char from, char to)
{
- char c[6] = { from, 0, ch, 0, to, 0 };
+ char c[6];
+ c[0] = from;
+ c[1] = 0;
+ c[2] = ch;
+ c[3] = 0;
+ c[4] = to;
+ c[5] = 0;
return strcoll (&c[0],&c[2])<= 0&& strcoll (&c[2],&c[4])<= 0;
}
FWIW, this change seems pretty innocuous.
Paolo
