Re: Commit fcd8843c40 breaks old compilers

[Trond Myklebust]

On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 12:19 -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> Commit fcd8843c406b46433857ae45e5e9d84b01a7d20b breaks on older
> compilers which cannot process initializers for anonymous structures:
> 
> +const nfs4_stateid invalid_stateid = {
> +       {
> +               .seqid = cpu_to_be32(0xffffffffU),
> +               .other = { 0 },
> +       },
> +       .type = NFS4_INVALID_STATEID_TYPE,
> +};
> 
> 
> /home/build/linux-linus/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c:74: error: unknown field
> âseqidâ specified in initializer
> /home/build/linux-linus/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c:74: warning: missing
> braces
> around initializer
> /home/build/linux-linus/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c:74: warning: (near
> initialization for âinvalid_stateid.<anonymous>.dataâ)
> /home/build/linux-linus/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c:74: warning: overflow in
> implicit constant conversion
> /home/build/linux-linus/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c:75: error: unknown field
> âotherâ specified in initializer
> /home/build/linux-linus/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c:75: error: extra brace
> group
> at end of initializer
> /home/build/linux-linus/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c:75: error: (near
> initialization for âinvalid_stateid.<anonymous>â)
> /home/build/linux-linus/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c:75: warning: excess
> elements
> in union initializer
> /home/build/linux-linus/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c:75: warning: (near
> initialization for âinvalid_stateid.<anonymous>â)
> make[4]: *** [fs/nfs/nfs4state.o] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [fs/nfs] Error 2
> 
> 
> FC-64 <build@build-mk2:~> gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.4.4 20100503 (Red Hat 4.4.4-2)
> 
> 
> A similar bug was fixed by e0714ec4f9efe7b86828b0dcc077fd8f5d8e5e91
> but
> I don't think the same approach can work here.


I don't have any setups with gcc 4.4.4. What is it expecting here? Is
it expecting an extra set of braces due to the anonymous "struct"?

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Trond Myklebust
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