[U-Boot] use of C99

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Kumar Gala,

In message <4A0B9AAA-4714-4C27-84A7-22FCE4D91DDA at freescale.com> you wrote:
> I was wondering if there was any reason we avoid C99 features in u- 
> boot source.
> 
> Specifically the ability to declare variables in the middle of  
> functions.

One reason is that I consider such code extremely ugly and hard to
read and understand.

> There are a slew of places that we have something like:
...
> #ifdef CONFIG_COOL_FEATURE
> 	u32 myvarrocks = foo * bar * bar;
> 
> 	gd->neato = myvarrocks
> #endif

It would be even better to avoid such #ifdef's, or at least the need
for such special local variables.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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