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Date:	Sun, 18 Oct 2015 23:45:53 -0400
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From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] does anyone like -Wdeclaration-after-statement
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> I find it annoying because you cant just start work in middle of function
> without producing a bunch of spurious warnings.
> 
> It promotes bad style too because redundancy between declarations and point
> of use, and forces use of bogus initializers, inefficient and/or redundance
> initializers or no initialize more often.

It also stops you from writing code that can only be compiled with gcc :-)

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