Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel: use the gnu89 standard explicitly | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Sun, 19 Oct 2014 13:23:59 -0700 |
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On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 13:05 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote: > > gcc5 changes the default standard to c11, rather than gnu89, which > > makes kernel build unhappy. > > Hmm. Just how unhappy does it make it? Maybe we can instead try to > make the build happier with some minimal changes? Or is it really > painful?
I think it'd be moderately painful.
There are ~1000 uses of variables like "<some_type> new" in the kernel.
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