From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tixy@linaro.org (Jon Medhurst (Tixy)) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:44:39 +0800 Subject: arm: kprobe compilation error In-Reply-To: <54D38982.6000100@elproma.com.pl> References: <54D38982.6000100@elproma.com.pl> Message-ID: <1423475079.2864.49.camel@linaro.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Janusz On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 16:17 +0100, Janusz U?ycki wrote: > I got the compilation error on next-20150204: > [...] > In file included from arch/arm/probes/kprobes/core.c:37: > arch/arm/probes/kprobes/core.h:43: error: '[*]' not allowed in other > than a declaration [...] > gcc version 4.2.4 Thanks for reporting this, is it OK if I add to a patch to fix this a line saying "Reported-by: Janusz U?ycki "? Whilst the extra '*' looks like an obvious typo, it's interesting that your error message implies that it's allowed in some situations and that the version of GCC that I use (4.9.1) doesn't complain about it. If it's valid C, I've no idea what that syntax that might represent. -- Tixy