Autore: Jeremy Harris Data: To: exim-users Oggetto: Re: [exim] Retiring old build targets
On 06/08/17 15:54, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-08-06 14:39, Jeremy Harris wrote:
>
>> I'd like to start using designated-initialisers, which is a C99
>> feature. We've avoided such things up until now, to keep backward
>> compatability. Does anyone want to take a stance, pro or con?
>
> I am like, totally pro :-)
Thank's for the vote.
>> Any other compiler features you'd like to see used?
>
> Not really a compiler feature, but how about making lookups (and maybe
> other plugin like features) into real .so objects, to be loaded with
> dlopen() and linked with dlsym()?
If it's any large amount of dev work, what's the benefit we get?
Startup time on a lookup type that the config only uses in rare cases?
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Cheers,
Jeremy