On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 01:42:48PM +0100, Morten Brørup wrote: > > From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richard...@intel.com] > > Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2023 12.36 > > > > Set the default C language standard to be used for DPDK builds to C99. > > This requires no actual code changes to build successfully. > > Great! > > > > > To ensure compatibility is kept for external apps using DPDK headers, > > we > > explicitly set the build parameters for the chkincs binary to the old > > minimum standard of "gnu89". [NOTE: DPDK code does not compile and has > > previously not compiled for pure c89 standard, so that stricter > > requirement need not be checked.] By adding this additional check, we > > can separately manage C standards used internally in DPDK builds and > > that required in the build flags for external apps using DPDK. > > It seems I have to accept this techboard decision for now. ;-) > There is no techboard decision here - certainly not yet. There is plenty of discussion still to be had. However, for now this RFC is being very conservative - perhaps overly so.
/Bruce
