On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 10:52:43PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann
>
> During a patch discussion, Linus brought up the option of changing
> the C standard version from gnu89 to gnu99, which allows using variable
> declaration inside of a for() loop. While the C99, C11 and later
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 1:14 AM John Stoffel wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 10:52:43PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann
> >
> > During a patch discussion, Linus brought up the option of changing
> > the C standard version from gnu89 to gnu99, which allows using variable
>
From: Arnd Bergmann
During a patch discussion, Linus brought up the option of changing
the C standard version from gnu89 to gnu99, which allows using variable
declaration inside of a for() loop. While the C99, C11 and later standards
introduce many other features, most of these are already
On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 11:36 PM Linus Torvalds
wrote:
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> And I don't want somebody with a newer compiler version to not notice
> that he or she ended up using a c17 feature, just because _that_
> compiler supported it, and then other people get build errors because
> their compilers use gnu11
Mark actually has a tree that switches to gnu99 with a lot of the
issues already sortd out and keeping sane default for things like the
absolutely horrible declarations in the middle of code here:
On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 1:54 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
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> Since the differences between gnu99, gnu11 and gnu17 are fairly minimal
> and mainly impact warnings at the -Wpedantic level that the kernel
> never enables, the easiest way is to just leave out the -std=gnu89
> argument entirely, and rely
