Re: [PATCH for-4.15] arm: replace typeof() with __typeof__()

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2021, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 08/03/2021 13:36, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> > typeof() is available in Xen's build environment, which uses Xen's
> > compiler.  As these headers are public, they need strict standards
> > conformance.  Only __typeof__() is officially standardized.
> >
> > A compiler in standards conformance mode should report:
> >
> > warning: implicit declaration of function 'typeof' is invalid in C99
> > [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> >
> > (this has been observed with FreeBSD's kernel build environment)
> >
> > Based-on-patch-by: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>, Sun Oct 4 20:33:04 2015 
> > +0100
> > Signed-off-by: Elliott Mitchell <ehem+xen@xxxxxxx>
> 
> s!arm!xen/public! in the subject seeing as two thirds of the
> modifications are in non-ARM headers.
> 
> Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>


> This wants backporting as a build fix, so should be considered for 4.15
> at this point.

+1