Messages in this thread | | | From | Florian Weimer <> | Subject | Re: Aarch64 EXT4FS inode checksum failures - seems to be weak memory ordering issues | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:31:45 +0100 |
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* Lukas Wunner:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 12:02:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> I appreciate Arnd pointing out "--std=gnu11", though. What are the >> actual relevant language improvements? >> >> Variable declarations in for-loops is the only one I can think of. I >> think that would clean up some code (and some macros), but might not >> be compelling on its own. > > Anonymous structs/unions. I used to have a use case for that in > struct efi_dev_path in include/linux/efi.h, but Ard Biesheuvel > refactored it in a gnu89-compatible way for v5.7 with db8952e7094f.
Aren't those a GNU extension supported since GCC 3.0?
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