On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 06:51:16PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:16:43 PDT, "Paul E. McKenney" said:

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I agree that instant gratification is hard to come by when synching
up compiler and kernel versions.  Nonetheless, it should be possible
to create APIs that are are conditioned on the compiler version.

We've tried that, sort of.  See the mess surrounding the whole
extern/static/inline/__whatever boondogle, which seems to have
changed semantics in every single gcc release since 2.95 or so.

And recently mention was made that gcc4.4 will have *new* semantics
in this area. Yee. Hah.

;-)

						Thanx, Paul