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

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2016 10:24:37 -0600
From:	David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>, Stephen Hemminger <shemming@...cade.com>
Cc:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	Julien Floret <julien.floret@...nd.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH v2 2/7] Use C99 style initializers everywhere

On 6/21/16 10:18 AM, Phil Sutter wrote:
> 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@....cc>
> ---
> 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?

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.