On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:33:02 +0000 Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote:
> 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). There are already many uses of flex array in DPDK. This is nothing new.
