From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: use the gnu89 standard explicitly
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:31:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1413754284.7076.1.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwbq4TtQXC9PTjOF3UPP7u8XH1mSYjvT7pevKcQBfy25A@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 13:46 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Oct 19, o2014 1:24 PM, "Joe Perches" <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think it'd be moderately painful.
> >
> > There are ~1000 uses of variables like "<some_type> new" in the kernel.
>
> So? That's not a C11 violation last I saw. The whole "new" keyword is still
> just a C++ problem AFAIK.
>
> And if that is some stupid gcc5 thing, maybe just turning off that
> particular gcc bug is possible?
My mistake, false premise.
Use of the <some_type> new is not an issue with
gcc 4.9 -std=gnu11.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-19 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-19 16:07 [PATCH] kernel: use the gnu89 standard explicitly Sasha Levin
2014-10-19 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-19 20:23 ` Joe Perches
[not found] ` <CA+55aFwbq4TtQXC9PTjOF3UPP7u8XH1mSYjvT7pevKcQBfy25A@mail.gmail.com>
2014-10-19 21:31 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-10-19 21:03 ` Aaro Koskinen
2014-10-19 23:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-19 23:10 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-19 23:19 ` Al Viro
2014-10-19 23:21 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-19 23:26 ` Al Viro
2014-10-19 23:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-19 23:59 ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-20 0:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-20 4:16 ` Al Viro
2014-10-19 23:25 ` pinskia
2014-10-19 23:52 ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-19 22:29 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
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