Re: __user annotations

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 6 Jun 2003 17:43:58 -0700 (PDT)


On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Linus Torvalds writes:
>
> > You can get check from
> >
> > bk://kernel.bkbits.net/torvalds/sparse
>
> Is that up to date? I cloned that repository and said "make" and got
> heaps of compile errors. First there were a heap of warnings like
> this:

You need to have a modern compiler. The "heaps of errors" is what you get
if you use a stone-age compiler that doesn't support anonymous structure
and union members or other C99 features.

Gcc has supported them since some pre-3.x version (which is pretty late,
since they've been around in other compilers for much longer). They are a
great way to make readable data structures that have internal structure
_without_ having to have that structure show up unnecessarily in usage.

Linus

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