linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] GCC release 8 support for gcc-plugins

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Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2018 06:56:32 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     valdis.kletnieks@...edu
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] GCC release 8 support for gcc-plugins

On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 12:34:38PM -0500, valdis.kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> For reasons totally beyond my understanding, gcc 8 changed the
> order of two structure member, which leads to an error:

I'm a little late on this, but isn't the whole point of C99 initializers
that field order should not matter at all?