On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 19:27:40 +0100 Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com> wrote:
> Thanks for pointing this out, I'm used to avoiding C extensions whenever > possible but will stick to DPDK style next time. > > Still, it would be nice if we could steer DPDK away from such extensions as > much as possible. As a library, we should allow user applications to compile > with flags we can't control (such as -pedantic -std=c99, and various > -Wsomething) No. The extensions are very useful, catch errors, and generate more readable code. For example the extension to check printf formats.