From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: better patch for linux/bitops.h
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 17:13:53 -0700
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On 05/05/2016 03:18 PM, tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> 
> So this is why I tend to take a much more pragmatic viewpoint on
> things.  Sure, it makes sense to pay attention to what the C standard
> writers are trying to do to us; but if we need to suppress certain
> optimizations to write sane kernel code --- I'm ok with that.  And
> this is why using a trust-but-verify on a specific set of compilers
> and ranges of compiler versions is a really good idea....
> 

For the record, the "portable" construct has apparently only been
supported since gcc 4.6.3.

	-hpa