Thomas Mueller wrote:
Hi Paul,
I don't get it. Why doesn't freebsd like this code?
<code>
void manage_stop_children()
{
/*
*
* cleanup all remaining forked processes
*
*/
trace(TRACE_MESSAGE, "%s,%s: General stop requested. Killing
children.. ",
__FILE__,__func__);
int stillSomeAlive = 1;
It appears gcc on freebsd doesn't like 'int var=0' type declarations inside
functions. Or am I missing something else here.
That's not allowed in C, all declarations have to be first.
I'll keep that one in mind.
C++ allows
declarations everywhere. Nevertheless 'declarations first' is a good
idea for better readability ...
Not that I agree with the readability argument though... thinking about some
very long functions in imapcommands.c with some pretty obscure variables neatly
declared at the beginning, but unused until a few hundred lines below...
When I'm in refactoring mode, extracting to new functions, I move all
declarations to where they are first used, and then move the codeblock to a
seperate function. I guess doing so a lot lately on the imap code, I got into
this habit of keeping declarations neatly together with the code that uses them.
Anyway, hope this fixes it for the freebsd users.
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