On 2015/2/9 19:00, Janusz Użycki wrote: > > W dniu 2015-02-09 o 10:44, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) pisze: >> Hi Janusz >> >> On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 16:17 +0100, Janusz Użycki wrote: >>> I got the compilation error on next-20150204: >>> >> [...] >>> In file included from arch/arm/probes/kprobes/core.c:37: >>> arch/arm/probes/kprobes/core.h:43: error: '[*]' not allowed in other >>> than a declaration >> [...] >>> gcc version 4.2.4 >> Thanks for reporting this, is it OK if I add to a patch to fix this a >> line saying "Reported-by: Janusz Użycki <j.uzy...@elproma.com.pl>"? > > sure > >> >> Whilst the extra '*' looks like an obvious typo, it's interesting that >> your error message implies that it's allowed in some situations and that >> the version of GCC that I use (4.9.1) doesn't complain about it. >> If it's valid C, I've no idea what that syntax that might represent. >> > I've not find such extension in C11 but likely gcc's team knows the answer. > It also compiles using gcc 4.8.3. However I thing more people use older > compilers > for different platforms. >
Hi All, Thanks for reporting and fixing this. When writing this code I checked C spec from open-std (n1548 and n1570). I got an feeling that [*] should be a standard way to specify variable length array types. Please see 6.7.6.3 and 6.7.7 of the spec. However I forgot there are old gccs which don't support that standard. Thank you! > best regards > Janusz > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
