[RFC PATCH 1/1] build: increase minimum C standard for DPDK builds

[Morten Brørup]

> From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richardson at intel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2023 13.47
> 
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 01:42:48PM +0100, Morten Brørup wrote:
> > > From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richardson at intel.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2023 12.36
> > >
> > > Set the default C language standard to be used for DPDK builds to
> C99.
> > > This requires no actual code changes to build successfully.
> >
> > Great!
> >
> > >
> > > To ensure compatibility is kept for external apps using DPDK
> headers,
> > > we
> > > explicitly set the build parameters for the chkincs binary to the
> old
> > > minimum standard of "gnu89". [NOTE: DPDK code does not compile and
> has
> > > previously not compiled for pure c89 standard, so that stricter
> > > requirement need not be checked.] By adding this additional check,
> we
> > > can separately manage C standards used internally in DPDK builds
> and
> > > that required in the build flags for external apps using DPDK.
> >
> > It seems I have to accept this techboard decision for now. ;-)
> >
> There is no techboard decision here - certainly not yet. There is
> plenty of
> discussion still to be had. However, for now this RFC is being very
> conservative - perhaps overly so.

Yeah, perhaps I was phrasing that somewhat emotionally loaded. :-)

I didn't mean to cause confusion on the mailing list. Thanks for clarifying, Bruce.