Add a deprecation notice informing users that we will require a C11 compiler from 23.11 release onwards. This requirement was agreed by technical board to enable use of newer C language features, e.g. standard atomics. [1]
[1] http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/dbapr08mb58148cec3e1454e8848a938998...@dbapr08mb5814.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com/ Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index dcc1ca1696..9a391d2c49 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ here. Deprecation Notices ------------------- +* C Compiler: From DPDK 23.11 onwards, + building DPDK will require a C compiler which supports the C11 standard, or later. + Please note: + - C11 is supported from GCC version 5 onwards, and is the default language version in that release + - C11 is the default compilation mode in Clang from version 3.6 + * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case. -- 2.39.2
