Re: [PATCH] strbuf: use designated initializers in STRBUF_INIT

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 09:11:33AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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Oh, absolutely.

Here is another possible test balloon, that may actually be useful
as an example.  I think there is a topic in flight that touches this
array, unfortunately, so I probably would find another one that is
more stable for a real follow-up patch to the one from Peff.

And here it is.

As to other things that we currently not allow in our codebase that
newer compilers can grok, here is what *I* think.  It is *not* meant
to be an exhaustive "what's new in C99 that is not in C89? what is
the final verdict on each of them?":

 - There were occasional cases where we wished if variable-length
   arrays, flexible array members and variadic macros were available
   in our codebase during the course of this project.  We would
   probably want to add a similar test baloon patch for each of
   them to this series that is currently two-patch long.

FWIW, variadic macros have subtle implementation differences that can
cause problems.
For instance, MSVC only supports ##__VA_ARGS__ by way of
ignoring ## somehow, but has the default behavior of dropping the comma
when __VA_ARGS__ is empty, which means , __VA_ARGS__ *without* ## has a
different behavior.
See also https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/380090/variadic-macro-replacement

Mike