Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] initializing a variable with a non-constant value

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:04:43 -0700
On Oct 14, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is very similar in theme to my question about variadic macros a
> few weeks ago [1].

...except that...

> The conclusion there was that they're not
> officially part of C89 which is Wireshark's official C version. Even
> though it seems all of the compilers we use support that particular
> C99 extension, we can't move to C99 officially because MSVC doesn't
> support all of it, so it's simpler for everyone if we try to stick to
> pure C89.

...this particular item hasn't changed between C89 and C99, as per my other mail.