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   From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
   Date: 29 Jul 2002 17:33:39 -0700

   On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 17:30, Robert Love wrote:
   
   > On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 17:26, Linus Torvalds wrote:
   > 
   > > Hmm.. Why did you remove the gcc workaround? Are all gcc's > 2.95 known to 
   > > be ok wrt empty initializers?
   > 
   > If I recall correctly, the fix was for older egcs compilers.
   
   To better answer your question, I just checked and indeed it seems all
   gcc's >= 2.95 are OK.

Some platforms (sparc64) are still using things like egcs-2.92.x
vintage compilers as their main supported kernel build compiler.

init/main.c allows 2.91 or greater to pass so that should be the rule
enforced kernel wide.

I don't remember when the empty initializer thing was fixed.
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