netdev - Re: [iproute PATCH 1/3] Use C99 style initializers everywhere

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Message-ID: <5764295E.7070103@iogearbox.net>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2016 18:46:22 +0200
From:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemming@...cade.com>
CC:	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	julien.floret@...nd.com, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH 1/3] Use C99 style initializers everywhere

On 06/17/2016 06:34 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 16:09:20 +0000
> Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net> wrote:
>
>> Please have a look at commit 8f80d450c3cb ("tc: fix compilation with old gcc (< 4.6)") ...
>>
>> Your changes effectively revert them again. Here, and some other parts of the bpf frontend
>> code bits.
>
> GCC 4.6 is 3 years old. So perhaps it is time to move on.
> Maybe add a GCC version check in the makefile, to fail cleanly.

Well, you don't have to ask me but rather the patch submitters (Cc).

I haven't used RHEL in quite a while, but I could imagine it might
be related to built it there perhaps.