On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 02:16, Andy Sy wrote: > While there is good reason to use GCC as the preferred compiler > to compile the Linux kernel with, does Linus mandate that > contributors to the source never ever use GNU specific and > non-standard extensions like obstacks and asprintf() ?
Linux extensively uses (and relies heavily on) the optimizing extensions that are found in GCC, although there are currently moves to use more of ANSI/ISO C. I'm not aware of any explicit mandate though... -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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