2008-03-22 18:20:26

by Margit Schubert-While

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Subject: gcc change and kernel build

Is this -
http://marc.info/?l=gcc-bugs&m=120620193114127&w=2
going to affect kernel builds?


2008-03-22 18:37:53

by Arjan van de Ven

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Subject: Re: gcc change and kernel build

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:40:03 +0100
Margit Schubert-While <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is this -
> http://marc.info/?l=gcc-bugs&m=120620193114127&w=2
> going to affect kernel builds?
>

no; the kernel doesn't use nested functions

2008-03-22 18:38:15

by Al Viro

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Subject: Re: gcc change and kernel build

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 06:40:03PM +0100, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> Is this -
> http://marc.info/?l=gcc-bugs&m=120620193114127&w=2
> going to affect kernel builds?

Not unless somebody had decided to use nested functions in the kernel.
I'd ran into only one such, er, person of questionable habits and the
code in question had been long rewritten in C, IIRC. Somebody might
have done that again, but it's not hard to check...