Re: [PATCH] kernel: use the gnu89 standard explicitly

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 13:05 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > gcc5 changes the default standard to c11, rather than gnu89, which
> > makes kernel build unhappy.
> 
> Hmm. Just how unhappy does it make it? Maybe we can instead try to
> make the build happier with some minimal changes? Or is it really
> painful?

I think it'd be moderately painful.

There are ~1000 uses of variables like "<some_type> new" in the kernel.

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