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

[Simon Josefsson]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Interesting!

I'll sneak in one decl-after-stmt in some of my projects and see if
anyone complains too.  Using decl-after-stmt can improve code
readability so if it is possible to use, I'd like to make more use of
it.

/Simon