From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [AMD64 1/3] fix C99-style declarations
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 21:47:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031025204717.GA78345@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031025202750.GC27754@wotan.suse.de>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-25 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-25 18:28 [AMD64 1/3] fix C99-style declarations Jeff Garzik
2003-10-25 20:27 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-25 20:47 ` John Levon [this message]
2003-10-25 20:56 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-25 21:03 ` John Levon
2003-10-28 9:20 ` Pavel Machek
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