Re: [RFC 0/2] Eliminate zero length arrays in DPDK

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 03:00:56PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Yet another case of applying Linux kernel best practices
> to DPDK. Flexible arrays are supported by Clang, GCC and
> Microsoft compilers (part of C99).
>
Do we need to start explicitly stating that DPDK uses C99 features, and
adding -std=c99 to our build flags? Are we also requiring that applications
are compiled with c99 features to use this (I would hope that they are, but
I'm not sure we can mandate it).