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* gcc change and kernel build
@ 2008-03-22 17:40 Margit Schubert-While
  2008-03-22 18:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
  2008-03-22 18:37 ` Al Viro
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Margit Schubert-While @ 2008-03-22 17:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Is this -
http://marc.info/?l=gcc-bugs&m=120620193114127&w=2
going to affect kernel builds?



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* Re: gcc change and kernel build
  2008-03-22 17:40 gcc change and kernel build Margit Schubert-While
@ 2008-03-22 18:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
  2008-03-22 18:37 ` Al Viro
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Arjan van de Ven @ 2008-03-22 18:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Margit Schubert-While; +Cc: linux-kernel

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:40:03 +0100
Margit Schubert-While <margitsw@t-online.de> wrote:

> Is this -
> http://marc.info/?l=gcc-bugs&m=120620193114127&w=2
> going to affect kernel builds?
> 

no; the kernel doesn't use nested functions

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* Re: gcc change and kernel build
  2008-03-22 17:40 gcc change and kernel build Margit Schubert-While
  2008-03-22 18:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
@ 2008-03-22 18:37 ` Al Viro
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Al Viro @ 2008-03-22 18:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Margit Schubert-While; +Cc: linux-kernel

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 06:40:03PM +0100, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> Is this -
> http://marc.info/?l=gcc-bugs&m=120620193114127&w=2
> going to affect kernel builds?

Not unless somebody had decided to use nested functions in the kernel.
I'd ran into only one such, er, person of questionable habits and the
code in question had been long rewritten in C, IIRC.  Somebody might
have done that again, but it's not hard to check...

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