Am Samstag, dem 07.12.2024 um 21:45 +0900 schrieb Vincent Mailhol: > On Sat. 7 Dec. 2024 at 17:39, Martin Uecker <muecker@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am Freitag, dem 06.12.2024 um 16:26 +0900 schrieb Vincent Mailhol: ... > > I find it amazing how much time the Linux kernel community spends > > revising code to make it work perfectly. > > > > Still, I am wondering whether some of this time and effort should not > > be targeted at C compilers and language work to make these macro > > hacks unnecessary? > > It seems to me that the long term solution to this problem are the > constexpr functions. How would constexpr functions help here? (I am a bit sceptical about constexpr functions.) > > But the core issue is that before getting this support in Linux, we > have to wait for this to be added to the C2Y draft, then implemented > in the compilers (probably just reusing the C++ constexpr functions) > and finally wait maybe one more decade for the C2Y support to reach > the kernel. For reference the kernel supports C11 only from 2022… So > maybe we will see those in the kernel around 2037? Meanwhile, we have > to deal with those hacks. If we do not collaborate on proper solutions, then you might have to wait much longer. Martin > > > Yours sincerely, > Vincent Mailhol
