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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>,
	Lista Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] PentiumPro/II split in x86 config
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 23:16:47 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020528021647.GE20729@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020528012925.GB20729@conectiva.com.br> <3720.1022551554@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>

Em Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:05:54PM +1000, Keith Owens escreveu:
> On Mon, 27 May 2002 22:29:25 -0300, 
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> >	Since you're working on this could I suggest that you use labeled
> >elements, this gccism make the initialization above way more cleaner, safer and
> >easy to read :-) This is being used in the kernel in places like the FSes, the
> >TCP/IP stack and lots of other places.
> >+		vendor:	     X86_VENDOR_INTEL,
> >+		family:	     5,
> 
> Better still, use the C language standard:
> 
> 		.vendor = X86_VENDOR_INTEL,
> 		.family = 5,

oops, gcc accepts that, good to know that this is standard C, but for the
kernel, I think that this doesn't matter as gcc is the only compiler that
understands the GCC Language 8) Or am I wrong? I'd love to be... 8)

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-28  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-27 14:54 [PATCH][RFC] PentiumPro/II split in x86 config J.A. Magallon
2002-05-27 17:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-27 21:59   ` J.A. Magallon
2002-05-28  1:29     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-28  2:05       ` Keith Owens
2002-05-28  2:16         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2002-05-28  2:24           ` Keith Owens
2002-05-28  2:35             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-28  2:55             ` Miles Bader
2002-05-28  3:02               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-28 14:03                 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-05-28 14:30                   ` Mikael Pettersson
2002-05-28 15:00                     ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-28 18:39                       ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-05-28 16:16                     ` Miles Bader
2002-05-28 14:45                   ` Roland Dreier
2002-05-29  4:23                 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-29  4:27                   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-29 14:06       ` Dave Jones
2002-05-28  0:15 ` Keith Owens

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