Re: [gnugo-devel] persistent cache reorganization

[Arend Bayer]

Paul wrote:
> Arend wrote:
> 
> > 1.) Defining the cache itself:
> > struct persistent_cache reading_cache =
> >   { .max_size = MAX_READING_CACHE_SIZE,
> >     .max_stackp = MAX_READING_CACHE_DEPTH,
> >     .age_factor = 1.0,
> >     .name = "reading cache", 
> >     .compute_active_area = compute_active_reading_area };

> I believe the above syntax is GCC extension.  Are there strong
> reasons to use it?  Because if it is GCC-only, you will have to
> provide #if'ed alternative.

It's part of C99 but it you may very well be right that it's new there.
Maybe I should go buy the C89 standard some time...

How should this be done in C89?

Arend