Re: [PATCH] slab gcc fix

[Andrew Morton]

Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Since we no longer support 2.95, we can get rid of this ugly thing.
> 
>  Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
> 
>  Index: linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm2/mm/slab.c
>  ===================================================================
>  --- linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm2.orig/mm/slab.c	2005-12-13 13:18:48.000000000 -0800
>  +++ linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm2/mm/slab.c	2005-12-13 13:19:11.000000000 -0800
>  @@ -265,11 +265,10 @@ struct array_cache {
>   	unsigned int batchcount;
>   	unsigned int touched;
>   	spinlock_t lock;
>  -	void *entry[0];		/*
>  +	void *entry[];		/*

There are hundreds of instances of this under include/.  I think we just
live with it.

Plus the gcc-2.95 abandonment is tentative for now, so let's not go nuts. 
It's conceivable that someone has a good reason for needing it retained - we'll
see.
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