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Date:	Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:37:56 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Margit Schubert-While <margitsw@...nline.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gcc change and kernel build

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 06:40:03PM +0100, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> Is this -
> http://marc.info/?l=gcc-bugs&m=120620193114127&w=2
> going to affect kernel builds?

Not unless somebody had decided to use nested functions in the kernel.
I'd ran into only one such, er, person of questionable habits and the
code in question had been long rewritten in C, IIRC.  Somebody might
have done that again, but it's not hard to check...
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