On Tuesday 06 September 2005 22:55, Terrence Miller wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > I don't think the functionality of having single copies in case > > an out of line version was needed was ever required by the Linux kernel. > > But shouldn't the compiler that compiles Linux be C99 compliant?
At least the kernel and some core functionality (glibc) has been traditionally written in GNU C, not ISO C. So no, that is not a design goal. Of course on the other hand GNU C is getting more and more like ISO C with the gcc people dropping extensions over time. Some of the extension use is probably more by mistake, but others (like typeof, inline assembly, statement expressions) are widely and intentionally used and would be quite hard to replace. However people have built the kernel with non gcc compilers, it just needed extensive modifications to either the compiler or the kernel. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
