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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.6] xen/public: arm: Use __typeof__ rather than typeof



On 23/10/15 14:52, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 23.10.15 at 15:30, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 14:13 +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 04/10/15 20:24, Julien Grall wrote:
>>>> The keyword typeof is not portable:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/src/freebsd/sys/xen/hypervisor.h:93:2: error: implicit declaration
>>>> of function 'typeof' is invalid in C99
>>>> [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>>>
>>> Ping? Aside the fact that other bits of the header may not be iso
>>> compliant, I still think this patch is valid.
>>
>> Yes, I agree.
>> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Jan, after your earlier comments are you happy to go ahead with this for
>> now and sort the other possible issues separately?
> 
> Well - it's an improvement, sure, so I'm not intending to block it
> going in if no better way can be determined in its place right away.
> What makes me hesitant is that I'm not sure there indeed will be a
> follow up to this any time soon.

TBH, having a script which check the validity of the headers is not in
the top my todo list. Though it would be nice to have it.

But I don't think we should delay this valid patch just because we don't
have time to write a such script.

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall

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