[greybus-dev] Re: [PATCH] [v2] Kbuild: move to -std=gnu11

[Guenter Roeck]

On 5/16/22 06:31, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 06:10:23AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:27:43AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>>>
>>> During a patch discussion, Linus brought up the option of changing
>>> the C standard version from gnu89 to gnu99, which allows using variable
>>> declaration inside of a for() loop. While the C99, C11 and later standards
>>> introduce many other features, most of these are already available in
>>> gnu89 as GNU extensions as well.
>>
>> The downside is that backporting affected patches to older kernel branches
>> now fails with error messages such as
>>
>> mm/kfence/core.c: In function ‘kfence_init_pool’:
>> mm/kfence/core.c:595:2: error: ‘for’ loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 or C11 mode
>>
>> Just something to keep in mind when writing patches.
> 
> I just ran across this very issue on this commit.  It's an easy fixup
> for 5.17.y to make this work, so I did that in my tree.  If this gets to
> be too much, we might need to reconsider adding c11 to older stable
> kernels.
> 

I think I'll do just that for ChromeOS; I don't want to have to deal
with the backports, and we are using recent compilers anyway.

Guenter