Re: [PATCH][RFC] PentiumPro/II split in x86 config

Miles Bader (miles@gnu.org)
29 May 2002 01:16:30 +0900


Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> writes:
> I agree with Keith that we really should prefer standard C solutions
> over gcc-specific hacks _when_they_exist_.

Since portability to other compilers is really not an option with linux,
it's a lot more important that the kernel code use a _consistent_
convention than it use a `standard' one.

So before recommending that people use a different syntax than the one
historically used, are you going to run over the whole kernel and
replace all the existing uses of `field:' with `.field = ' (and brave
the flamewar that it would probably require)?

-Miles

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