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

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 04:05:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Here's one example how it fails: http://marc.info/?l=gcc&m=141349914632010&w=2
> 
> Ok, that just looks like a gnu11 bug, then. Not being able to
> initialize structures because some sub-structure has a volatile member
> is just pure BS.
> 
> Has anybody reported this as a gcc bug? That email may be on the gcc
> list, but I'm not seeing anybody acknowledge it as a bug..
> 
> I cannot imagine that anybody sane claims that this is *wanted*
> behavior from "gnu11".

IIUC, it's nothing to do with volatile. C11 and above reads

	(rwlock_t) { .raw_lock = { 0 }, }

as compound literal (which is not constant) rather than constant
initalizer plus a cast.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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