Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932264AbVLDQRM (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 11:17:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932268AbVLDQRM (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 11:17:12 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:5525 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932264AbVLDQRL (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 11:17:11 -0500 X-Authenticated: #428038 Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:17:09 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: Linux-Kernel mailing list Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel Message-ID: <20051204161709.GC17846@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Linux-Kernel mailing list References: <20051203230520.GJ25722@merlin.emma.line.org> <43923DD9.8020301@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20051204121209.GC15577@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133699555.5188.29.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051204132813.GA4769@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133703338.5188.38.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051204142551.GB4769@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133707855.5188.41.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051204150804.GA17846@merlin.emma.line.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 899 Lines: 24 On Sun, 04 Dec 2005, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Matthias Andree writes: > > > Yes. "extern type foo; static type foo;" is way stupid, but 10% of the > > blame can be shifted on the GCC guys for being much too tolerant. > > You should rather blame the C standard. There are things that old Sun Workshop versions bitch about that GCC deals with without complaining, and I'm not talking about C99/C++-style comments. C standard issue? I believe not. Anyways, this is getting off-topic and ultimately the author of broken code is responsible, of course. But it's still nice if the tools help produce good code. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/