svn commit: r203481 - user/luigi/ipfw3-head/sys/netinet/ipfw

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:50:34AM +0100, Roman Divacky wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:24:13AM +0000, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > Author: luigi
> > Date: Thu Feb  4 07:24:13 2010
> > New Revision: 203481
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/203481
> > 
> > Log:
> >   portability fix for compilers that do not have C99 initializers
> 
> C99 in kernel is a must and has been for a long time... I dont think
> that obfuscating obvious code to be able to support ancient compiler(s)
> is worth it...

unfortunately this code is shared among multiple platforms (including
a Windows NDIS driver and the only way i know to do it is using
MSVC), and keeping separate distributions is too expensive in terms
of mainteinance.

I tried for almost one year not to pollute the code in the tree with
#ifdefs and intrusive portability tricks, but the only effect was
to slow down development and fixes to the FreeBSD code.

I'll try and see if i can find some other tricks to achieve the same
result before the code is merged into HEAD.

cheers
luigi