Re: Is the kernel compiler gcc by definition?

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:17:51 +0200


Hi!

> Is there a policy on what C constructs may be in the kernel?
> Or is gcc the de-facto definition of what kind of code is allowed?

There are so much gcc-isms all around the code, so that it probably
does not matter if you add one new one.

Pavel

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