linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] ipc/sem.c: remove sem

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Message-ID: <20170516054607.GA15584@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 15 May 2017 22:46:07 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>
Cc:     mtk.manpages@...il.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 1vier1@....de,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>, mingo@...nel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, fabf@...net.be
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ipc/sem.c: remove sem_base, embed struct sem

> +	struct sem		sems[0];

I can't contribute much to the code itself, but [0] is an old
GCC extension, for modern code sems[] should do the same things
but is standard C.