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

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Mon, 27 May 2002 23:16:47 -0300


Em Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:05:54PM +1000, Keith Owens escreveu:
> On Mon, 27 May 2002 22:29:25 -0300,
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> > Since you're working on this could I suggest that you use labeled
> >elements, this gccism make the initialization above way more cleaner, safer and
> >easy to read :-) This is being used in the kernel in places like the FSes, the
> >TCP/IP stack and lots of other places.
> >+ vendor: X86_VENDOR_INTEL,
> >+ family: 5,
>
> Better still, use the C language standard:
>
> .vendor = X86_VENDOR_INTEL,
> .family = 5,

oops, gcc accepts that, good to know that this is standard C, but for the
kernel, I think that this doesn't matter as gcc is the only compiler that
understands the GCC Language 8) Or am I wrong? I'd love to be... 8)

- Arnaldo
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