On 7/8/2016 9:05 AM, Adrien Mazarguil wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 06:33:17PM +0000, Wiles, Keith wrote:
>>
>>> On Jul 7, 2016, at 10:49 AM, Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at
>>> 6wind.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> DPDK uses GNU C language extensions in most of its code base. This is fine
>>> for internal source files whose compilation flags are controlled by DPDK,
>>> however user applications that use exported "public" headers may experience
>>> compilation failures when enabling strict error/standard checks (-std and
>>> -pedantic for instance).
>>
>> Do you try compiling these changes with CLANG and/or ICC compilers?
>
> clang/clang++ yes, works fine. I did not try with ICC however.
I tested with icc, getting following error [1], compiler warning seems
valid, but didn't investigate what in your patch cause this.
[1]
.../app/test/test_table_acl.c(487): error #2405: array of elements
containing a flexible array member is nonstandard
struct rte_pipeline_table_entry entries[5];
^
.../app/test/test_table_acl.c(492): error #2405: array of elements
containing a flexible array member is nonstandard
struct rte_pipeline_table_entry entries_ptr[5];
>
> Note that considering "({ ... })" is a GNU extension, compilers that do
> support this syntax also support the GNU __extension__ keyword. As a result,
> those that do not support this keyword most likely already cannot compile
> DPDK at all.
>
