[LLVMdev] [RFC] The coding standard for "struct" should be relaxed or removed

[Duncan P. N. Exon Smith]

The current guidelines [1] on the use of the struct keyword are too
restrictive and apparently ignored.  They limit the use of struct to
PODs, citing broken compilers.

The guidelines are out-of-date and should be relaxed.  Here’s why:

 1. Our updated list of supported compilers should all deal correctly
    with non-POD structs.

 2. A quick grep of the source suggests that no one paid attention
    anyway.

I’ve attached a patch that removes the guideline entirely (matching
the apparent current practice), but does anyone feel a new explicit
guideline is in order?

[1]: http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html#use-of-class-and-struct-keywords

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