On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 10:55 AM Bruce Richardson < bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 10:28:40AM -0500, Ben Magistro wrote: > > There is a thread discussing a change to the standard [1] but I have > > not seen anything explicit yet about moving to C11. I am personally > in > > favor of making the jump to C11 now as part of the 23.x branch and > > provided my thoughts in the linked thread (what other projects using > > DPDK have as minimum compiler requirements, CentOS 7 EOL dates). > > Is the long term plan to backport this change set to the existing LTS > > release or is this meant to be something introduced for use in 23.x > and > > going forward? I think I was (probably naively) assuming this would > be > > a new feature in the 23.x going forward only. > > [1] [1]http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2023-February/262188.html > > > We don't bump requirements for older LTS releases, so any change to minimum > required versions would only be for the 23.x series releases I meant the atomics change set, I should have been clearer in that question, my apologies. If the atomic work is planned to be backported, the question of if/when the C11 standard would be adopted seems less relevant since it would need to be supported for DPDK versions that do not have the C11 standard requirement too.
