Jim Meyering writes:
> I vaguely recall feeling a slight twinge as I did that,
> but since coreutils proper has been using decl-after-stmt,
> for so long, I let it slide.
How does that work? Do most compilers out there really support
decl-after-stmt (not likely?!), or do you offer a patch for u
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According to Karl Berry on 2/13/2009 6:00 PM:
> On the other hand, I thought I remembered seeing some previous mail
> about not requiring C99 in general. So we consider decl-after-stmt an
> exception to this?
True C99 support is very difficult to fin
Do most compilers out there really support
decl-after-stmt (not likely?!),
In compiling the binaries for TeX Live, where we try to use fairly old
compilers and systems, the only platform which had problems with
decl-after-stmt was v5 of the IBM C compiler for AIX 4.3. There are
various r
Jim Meyering wrote:
...
> Here's an incremental, then the adjusted full patch.
>
> BTW, I test this with coreutils by running chcon -R[*] on a directory
> containing 1000 files. With the patch, strace -c reports *1*
> calls to newfstatat, but without, it reports 1001 of them.
Pushed.
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
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> Nice speedup! A couple of comments, reading the patch:
Hi Ralf,
Thanks for taking the time.
>> diff --git a/lib/fts.c b/lib/fts.c
>> index 164834c..735f23f 100644
>> --- a/lib/fts.c
>> +++ b/lib/fts.c
>
>> +case S_MAGIC_PROC:
>> + /* Explicitly listing thi
