Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Matthias Andree
2005-12-04T16:17:12Z

On Sun, 04 Dec 2005, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > Yes. "extern type foo; static type foo;" is way stupid, but 10% of the
> > blame can be shifted on the GCC guys for being much too tolerant.
>
> You should rather blame the C standard.

There are things that old Sun Workshop versions bitch about that GCC
deals with without complaining, and I'm not talking about C99/C++-style
comments. C standard issue? I believe not.

Anyways, this is getting off-topic and ultimately the author of broken
code is responsible, of course. But it's still nice if the tools help
produce good code.

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Matthias Andree