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On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 01:58:02PM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> Friends -
> 
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:31:35PM -0800, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> > > As for me, I always use -Wall enabled, it really helps write reliable
> > > code (and frequently brokes compilation of some projects :-).
> > My too.  I also use -Wextra.  Neither of those imply
> > -Wdeclaration-after-statement,
> > it's that unpopular.  I like to use -Werror as well and pcb is pretty close
> > to clean enough
> 
> -O2 -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -pedantic --std=c99
> 
> and the --std=c99 part explicitly allows declarations after statements.
> I don't know what to suggest if a compiler doesn't follow an ISO standard
> 16 years after it's published.

Probably I have an opportunity to ask a question about the C99 standard :)
Are any issues mentioned at [1] still relevant? Could any issues appear if
we start to support it?

Thanks,
  Vladimir

[1] http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/2/23/194544/139