On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 03:35:19PM -0800, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 03:26:30PM -0800, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > This fixes compilation failures related to START_TIMER/STOP_TIMER macros 
> >> > and
> >> > -Werror=declaration-after-statement.  START_TIMER declares variables and 
> >> > thus
> >> > may not be placed after statements outside of a new block.
> >>
> >> START/STOP_TIMER are for development purposes only.  There is
> >> absolutely no reason to make this sort of change for something that
> >> should never be enabled except during development.
> >
> > Except that one cannot use it for development right now, because
> > it will not compile?  How can development code be exempt from
> > compilation requirements?
> 
> -Werror=declaration-after-statement sounds like an extremely bad
> option to enable during development, since placing strict rules on
> variable declarations is just about the antithesis of hacking around
> wildly with code.  START_TIMER in particular is dramatically more
> obnoxious to use with that option.

You may well have a point here, but -Werror=declaration-after-statement
is now set by configure.  So without the braces I add or a change in
the macros, compilation is currently failing.

Just try 'make testprogs' ...

Diego
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