>>> On 23.10.15 at 15:58, <julien.gr...@citrix.com> wrote:
> On 23/10/15 14:52, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 23.10.15 at 15:30, <ian.campb...@citrix.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 14:13 +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 04/10/15 20:24, Julien Grall wrote:
>>>>> The keyword typeof is not portable:
>>>>>
>>>>> /usr/src/freebsd/sys/xen/hypervisor.h:93:2: error: implicit declaration
>>>>> of function 'typeof' is invalid in C99
>>>>> [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>>>>
>>>> Ping? Aside the fact that other bits of the header may not be iso
>>>> compliant, I still think this patch is valid.
>>>
>>> Yes, I agree.
>>> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com>
>>>
>>> Jan, after your earlier comments are you happy to go ahead with this for
>>> now and sort the other possible issues separately?
>> 
>> Well - it's an improvement, sure, so I'm not intending to block it
>> going in if no better way can be determined in its place right away.
>> What makes me hesitant is that I'm not sure there indeed will be a
>> follow up to this any time soon.
> 
> TBH, having a script which check the validity of the headers is not in
> the top my todo list. Though it would be nice to have it.

No, the validating script is a nice-to-have, but nothing more. What
I was referring to was a patch to drop the use of this gcc extension.

> But I don't think we should delay this valid patch just because we don't
> have time to write a such script.

As said - I don't intend to block the patch going in; I'm just not
convinced that allowing it to go in won't result in not follow up at all.

Jan


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