On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 03:13:50AM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:

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Since this is only a warning, and only a practical issue with -Werror I
wonder if a config.mak.dev change wouldn't be better, i.e. to provide a
-Wno-missing-braces for this older clang version.

I'm in favor of this. It would, of course, require extra
special-casing for Apple's clang for which the version number bears no
resemblance to reality since Apple invents their own version numbers.

I got PTSD reading that thread again, but in case anybody wants to dig
into this, I think there are some hints from the last time we discussed
this (starting at the end of this message and the subthread):

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/YQ2LdvwEnZN9LUQn@coredump.intra.peff.net/ (local)

-Peff