Another 4.3 c++ question.... (vmware kernel g++ module rebuild issue)

Tom London selinux at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 18:32:01 UTC 2008


On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 07:08:45AM -0800, Tom London wrote:
>  > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> wrote:
>  > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 06:53:48AM -0800, Tom London wrote:
>
> > Any idea why the old "colon" syntax would appear to still work?  (at
>  > least not complain)? That seems a bit strange.
>
>  C++ standard (C++98, but AFAIK no changes are planned for C++0x) doesn't
>  have designated initializers, only C99 does.  The g++ front-end supports
>  very limited subset of the old style designated initializers as a GNU
>  extension, but nobody wrote support for the C99 designated initializers
>  as GNU extension for C++ FE.
>
>
>
>         Jakub
>
Thanks for the help here.

Appears that the issue is that one of the header file "include only
once" macro variables changed names with newer kernel.

I now have enough to push this to vmware ......

Thanks.
   tom
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Tom London




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