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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:21:12 +0200
From:      Rares Aioanei <bsdlisten@gmail.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Clean up GNU-isms in base?
Message-ID:  <CAMy0BGTbvjdLRnGjO5UM-eRXGVXvyotO574M2oxiASrT5aT9%2Bw@mail.gmail.com>
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Alright, thanks. I'll start looking into it, time provided, and update
the list accordingly.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:19 AM Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 10:17:26AM +0200, Rares Aioanei wrote:
> > While compiling world with extra warnings I noticed compiler messages
> > about GNU extensions being used in the code, for example the use of typeof() or
> > warnings like this : "/usr/src/lib/libpmc/pmu-events/json.h:22:35:
> > warning: token pasting of ',' and __VA_ARGS__ is a GNU extension
> > [-Wgnu-zero-variadic-macro-arguments]". Question is : is there an
> > interest in doing a "clean-up" of such constructs in the code?
>
> To the extent that the standard provides a useful mechanism (as, IIRC,
> it does here), I think this is a good idea.
>
> Right now we're probably confined to mechanisms supported in C99, but
> once we've finished kicking gcc 4.2.1 out later this year, we'll be able
> to use C11 features.
>
> -- Brooks



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