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Patches item #1781994, was opened at 2007-08-26 05:19
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Category: liblicense
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Peter Miller (pmiller)
>Assigned to: Scott Shawcroft (tannewt)
Summary: liblicense.0.4 - gcc -ansi

Initial Comment:
This change set increases the portability of the C code - to compilers other 
than GCC - by avoiding post-1989 features of the C language definition.  Yes: 
18 years later and they STILL haven't caught up.

I haven't committed this to my repo yet, I'd like to know what folks think.

Personally, I'd rather be coding in C++, where mixed declarations and 
statements are OK.  They make a lot of sense.  Problem is that most compilers 
except GCC are, well, behind the times.

The no-c++ comments thing is important programmer psychology.  It provides 
the reader with an almost subliminal clue that they are dealing with C, and 
not anything else.

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