From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262794AbTJYUrT (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2003 16:47:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262805AbTJYUrT (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2003 16:47:19 -0400 Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.93]:15633 "EHLO serenity.mcc.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262794AbTJYUrS (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2003 16:47:18 -0400 Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 21:47:17 +0100 From: John Levon To: Andi Kleen Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [AMD64 1/3] fix C99-style declarations Message-ID: <20031025204717.GA78345@compsoc.man.ac.uk> References: <20031025182824.GA12117@gtf.org> <20031025202750.GC27754@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031025202750.GC27754@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Url: http://www.movementarian.org/ X-Record: King of Woolworths - L'Illustration Musicale X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1ADVJd-000HlC-EE*rDAeP.8/0tQ* Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:27:50PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > x86-64 always used C99 and there is no x86-64 compiler > around that doesn't support it. I must say I was somewhat pissed off > that someone added that nasty warning to the toplevel Makefile > just to comfort some gcc 2.95 users on i386 ("all world is a i386") Sorry, that is bullshit. The change was entirely designed to prevent people on such architectures hacking general files where there *do* exist older compilers, to avoid breakage being introduced without it being flagged. This has happened more than once in the tree. When all the architectures have a minimum gcc requirement that accepts mixed code and declarations by default, it can be removed ... regards, john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.