On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 04:28:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Felipe W Damasio wrote:
> >
> > DB> Linux drivers are one of the few places where I support GCC-isms; the
> > DB> drivers must be compiled with GCC. And this is one of the few syntax
> > DB> extensions that is required. Using the "element: init,"
> > DB> initialization is the only compatible syntax.
>
> The problem is, that apparently even gcc will _drop_ the gcc'ism (and
> already warns about it, it seems - although I don't have a new gcc to
> verify that myself), at which point it isn't a gcc'ism, it's a bug.
Either it's buried in with -W, or -pedantic or something, or it isn't
in current HEAD CVS. It happily churns through those files blissfully
ignorant of whichever you choose to use.
__FUNCTION__ abuse however, is still all over the place.
Dave
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