Re: Proposal: Make use of C99 designated initialisers for nulls/values arrays

Hi,

On 2019-10-18 09:03:31 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Chapman Flack (chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net) wrote:
> > On 10/18/19 08:18, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > I realize that I need to don some fireproof gear for suggesting this,
> > > but I really wonder how much fallout we'd have from just allowing {} to
> > > be used.. It's about a billion[1] times cleaner and more sensible than
> > > using {0} and doesn't create a dependency on what the first element of
> > > the struct is..
> >
> > I guess the non-flamey empirical question would be, if it's not ISO C,
> > are we supporting any compiler that doesn't understand it?
>
> Right, that's basically what I was trying to ask. :)

I don't understand why this is an issue worth deviating from the
standard for. Especially not when the person suggesting to do so isn't
even doing the leg work to estimate the portability issues.

I feel we've spent more than enough time on this topic.

- Andres