On 22/07/2015 01:21, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
For the stragglers, I don't think its a stretch to ask C99 in 2015.
Visual Studio is often used on Windows, and it is not C99.
Oh my, I was not aware it was still struggling for C99 :) I guess
Microsoft is still putting their energies into the "one-size, tablet
interface known as Windows 8, fits all, even on desktops without a
touchscreen".
On the good side, MSVC does not need to be 100% compliant. It just
needs to support initialization at time of declaration. That
particular feature works.
Isn't that a C89 (or maybe even K&R) feature?
There is another problem though: Blindly initializing
every variable with dummy values (because the correct
value comes from one or more if() branches), only
achieves two things, both bad:
- It hides correct warnings in case one of those if()
branches forgets to set the variable, before it is
read.
- It potentially confuses less-than-halting-problem-
solving optimizers to needlessly generate code that
allocates and initializes the variable because they
cannot detect (within their compile time resource
limits) that the dummy value is (hopefully) never
used.
The second problem is almost guaranteed to happen on
any compiler/option combination that would otherwise
falsely warn about the variable being maybe-
uninitialized. This is because most compilers
generate that warning as a side effect of the
optimizer trying to figure out if the garbage or
dummy value will be used by the code.
Enjoy
Jakob
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