[parted-devel] About the obsolete use of struct initialization

[Phil Susi]

On 6/7/2016 2:09 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 11:04:13AM +0800, Wang Dong wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am going to write some code under libparted.
>> But I found struct initialization which is an obsolete use.
>>
>> *for example*:
>>          boo = {next: 1 , current: 2}
>>
>> Actually, I found this use in other places.
>>
>> I checked it out and it turns out this use is obsolete in gcc 2.5
>> And I found my gcc is 5.x. So I think this use may be so old.
>> Can I use the new? But I am not sure if the keeping use of this
>> is for compatibility.
>>
>> *So I just ask should I use comply with**
>> **the style of old or can I use the new initialization style?*
> 
> parted is a fairly old project :) I haven't seen any build errors
> related to using the old style initialization so I'd stick with it.
> parted is also used in a number of different environments, so I wouldn't
> want to introduce changes that may break some of those.

I would think that in 2017, we should probably start using the C99
standard ;)