Re: [9fans] ports update

[Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>]

Fco.J.Ballesteros wrote:

>Do you mean that you use global search and replace both to
>translate anonymous struct/unions to named ones and
>also to translate array initialization syntax?
>  
>

Yes, but different search-and-replaces.

>Initialization syntax can be hard to do that way, unless I'm
>missing something obvious (eg. like it existing now in the std).
>  
>

It's easy to turn

int x[10] = {
[a]   1,
[b]   2,
[c]   3,
};

into

int x[10];

static void
initx(void)
{
    x[a]= 1;
    x[b]= 2;
    x[c]= 3;
};

and then call initx() from somewhere appropriate.

> Do you have the translator at hand anyway?


I'd have to dig it up and it doesn't entirely work.

Russ