Re: [iproute PATCH v2 2/7] Use C99 style initializers everywhere

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:24:37AM -0600, David Ahern wrote:

On 6/21/16 10:18 AM, Phil Sutter wrote:

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This big patch was compiled by vimgrepping for memset calls and changing
to C99 initializer if applicable. One notable exception is the
initialization of union bpf_attr in tc/tc_bpf.c: changing it would break
for older gcc versions (at least <=3.4.6).

Calls to memset for struct rtattr pointer fields for parse_rtattr*()
were just dropped since they are not needed.

The changes here allowed the compiler to discover some unused variables,
so get rid of them, too.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
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Changes since v1:
- Dropped former changes to tc/tc_bpf.c as they are incompatible to older
  gcc versions (at least <=3.4.6).

What OS versions have you compiled iproute2 against?

Tested on Gentoo with old compiler installed, so apart from gcc the
system is up to date.

I downloaded CentOS 5 and 6. iproute2 fails to compile on CentOS 5.11; 
ip command builds on 6.8 but with a flurry of redefinition errors 
(BUILD_BUG_ON), but fails at tc.

What's the exact error message please? Maybe some incompatibility in
kernel headers? Although that shouldn't be ...

Cheers, Phil