linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cgroup: reorder flexible array members of struct cgroup

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Date:   Sat, 21 Oct 2017 12:08:42 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:     Aleksa Sarai <asarai@...e.de>, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Michael Davidson <md@...gle.com>,
        Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>,
        Stephen Hines <srhines@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: reorder flexible array members of struct cgroup_root

On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
> The kernel is explicitly using GNU extended version of C and has
> always from the beginning, so not-std-c isn't a valid argument.

Ok, how about that it looks like gcc7.1 starts treating this as an error?

https://godbolt.org/g/ivzPHZ

gcc6.3 looks like it starts trying to warn about this.

I don't have a local build of gcc7.1 to verify, but it seems like
setting -std=gnu99 doesn't help.

With Clang, it seems to be a warning that can be ignored via command
line flags, but doesn't look like that's possible for newer versions
of gcc, so this will have to be addressed at some point.