> From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richard...@intel.com] > Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2023 13.47 > > 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.
Yeah, perhaps I was phrasing that somewhat emotionally loaded. :-) I didn't mean to cause confusion on the mailing list. Thanks for clarifying, Bruce.
