Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Fix build with older versions of GCC following e34bc403c3

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/05/2017 01:01 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> GCCs of at least 4.4 and earlier do not tollerate the initialisiation of the
> $VENDOR_cpu_dev structures, because of c_ident becoming an anonymous union.
>
> Instead of using an anonymous union, reintepret c_ident[] in its CPUID form
> just in get_cpu_vendor().
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> CC: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> RFC, as I don't have easy access to a compiler which causes this to fail in
> the first place.

Tested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>

with gcc 4.4.4



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