Re: fts: make find *much* faster on dirent.d_type-challenged FS

[Jim Meyering]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> 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 users with
> older compilers?

I used to maintain a patch, src/c99-to-c89.diff, that would perform the
conversion, but stopped 4 or 5 months ago.  It was not worth the trouble.

So far, no one has complained.

> A c992c89 tool would be nice, to downgrade code that uses
> decl-after-stmt...

That would be great.  But soon it won't be necessary.
c99 is 10 years old, after all.