Re: [RFC Patch] kbuild: remove -Wdeclaration-after-statement

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 05:38:01AM -0400, Amerigo Wang wrote:
> 
> I got lots of "ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code" warnings
> during compile today's kernel.
> 
> I think we can remove the gcc option '-Wdeclaration-after-statement'
> now, since we already have C99 for 10 years. :)

This is a matter of style more than what C99 allows.
Kernel style is to fobid this(*) so we keep the warning.

(*) Based on reading several threads where this has
been mentioned - I have no specific references to CodingStyle.

	Sam
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