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> Acked-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roret...@linux.microsoft.com> --- V2: - add requirement for stdatomics - fix sphinx formatting --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index dcc1ca1696..70c6019d26 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -11,6 +11,15 @@ here. Deprecation Notices ------------------- +* C Compiler: From DPDK 23.11 onwards, + building DPDK will require a C compiler which supports the C11 standard, + including support for C11 standard atomics. + + 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
