On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 06:08:11PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Linus,
>
> This patch updates include/linux/spinlock.h's comment regarding gcc
> bugs for empty struct initializers, to correctly state that the bug
> is present also in 2.95.x and at least early versions of 2.96 (as
> reported by one Mandrake user).
>
> /Mikael
>
> --- linux-2.5.74/include/linux/spinlock.h.~1~ 2003-07-03 12:32:46.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.5.74/include/linux/spinlock.h 2003-07-03 16:07:59.772534704 +0200
> @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
> } while (0)
> #else
> /*
> - * gcc versions before ~2.95 have a nasty bug with empty initializers.
> + * gcc versions up to 2.95, and early versions of 2.96, have a nasty bug with empty initializers.
> */
> #if (__GNUC__ > 2)
> typedef struct { } spinlock_t;
This also isn't that clear (does it mean up to 2.95.0 but not including
2.95.1 etc.) Also, we don't build with gcc < 2.95 anyway, so there's
no need to mention anything older. This removes the doubt:
"All gcc 2.95 versions and early versions of gcc 2.96 have a nasty bug with
empty initializers."
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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