On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 01:09:16PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > The refcnt field is contained within an anonymous union within the mbuf > > data structure, and gcc 4.4 gives an error about an unknown field unless > > the initialiser for the field is contained within extra braces. > > > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> > > Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> > > Thanks Bruce, it is now applied.
Hang on here, we use anonymous unions all the time in RHEL6, and make assignments to them frequently, and the compiler doesn't complain (see the dropcount variable in sk_buff for an example). Not saying that this is a big deal, but can you explain a little more about what you're seeing when this error occurs, before we just paper over it? Neil > -- > Thomas >
