Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:16:45 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel: use the gnu89 standard explicitly |
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 05:23:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So now we have a *third* semantic of "extern inline", and one that > seems to be entirely inappropriate to *ever* be used in a header file > due to duplicate symbol problems. What a mess. > > Maybe we should just specify "gnu89" to avoid these kinds of insane > semantic changes.
Umm... does anything except alpha really use extern inline? The instances outside of arch/alpha seem to be mostly cargo-culting; lib/mpi might be another one, but other than that...
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