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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: dl9pf@gmx.de, Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>,
	David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>,
	ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, acpi: LLVMLinux: Remove nested functions from Thinkpad ACPI
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 22:01:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140212220116.GR18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1402121351510.27082@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 01:54:43PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:

> So this patch is only as a courtesy to clang and you're not complaining 
> about things like __builtin() functions, typeof, or a ? : b conditional 
> operators because clang happens to support them?

That patch removes a disgusting construct; who cares how they'd discovered
it?  Consider it courtesy to reviewers, clang or no clang...

Folks, it's C; no need to bring Pascal misfeatures in, even if gcc happens
to accept them.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-12 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-12 20:58 [PATCH] x86, acpi: LLVMLinux: Remove nested functions from Thinkpad ACPI dl9pf
2014-02-12 21:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-02-12 21:20   ` Behan Webster
2014-02-12 21:27     ` Måns Rullgård
2014-02-12 21:32     ` Richard Weinberger
2014-02-12 21:54 ` David Rientjes
2014-02-12 22:01   ` Al Viro [this message]
2014-02-13 13:03 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

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