From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: "Mattias Rönnblom" <hofors@lysator.liu.se>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, <techboard@dpdk.org>,
Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] build: announce requirement for C11
Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 09:48:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZFNxewGvyQlf/+0d@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd33b7da-d65e-e19c-4cfa-0da2baabe651@lysator.liu.se>
On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 09:50:09AM +0200, Mattias Rönnblom wrote:
> On 2023-05-03 19:30, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > Add a deprecation notice informing users that we will require a C11
> > compiler from 23.11 release onwards. This requirement was agreed by
> > technical board to enable use of newer C language features, e.g.
> > standard atomics. [1]
> >
> > [1] http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/DBAPR08MB58148CEC3E1454E8848A938998AB9@DBAPR08MB5814.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > Acked-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > V2:
> > - add requirement for stdatomics
> > - fix sphinx formatting
> > ---
> > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 9 +++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > index dcc1ca1696..70c6019d26 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > @@ -11,6 +11,15 @@ here.
> > Deprecation Notices
> > -------------------
> > +* C Compiler: From DPDK 23.11 onwards,
> > + building DPDK will require a C compiler which supports the C11 standard,
> > + including support for C11 standard atomics.
>
> The whole of C11, or just the mandatory parts (+atomics)?
>
I assume we only need mandatory + atomics, however perhaps someone more
knowledgable about what the optional parts of the spec are, can correct me
on this. Once clarified, I maybe should reword this yet again to call it
out even more specificallly.
/Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-04 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-03 15:14 [PATCH] " Bruce Richardson
2023-05-03 15:35 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-05-03 15:37 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-05-03 15:39 ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-05-03 15:45 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-05-03 15:57 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-05-03 16:07 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-05-03 16:51 ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-05-03 17:30 ` [PATCH v2] " Bruce Richardson
2023-05-04 7:50 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2023-05-04 8:48 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2023-05-04 15:24 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-05-03 21:34 ` [PATCH] " Morten Brørup
2023-05-17 17:34 ` [PATCH v3] " Bruce Richardson
2023-05-19 12:19 ` Aaron Conole
2023-05-19 20:01 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-07-20 8:22 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-07-20 10:56 ` Jerin Jacob
2023-07-28 9:34 ` Thomas Monjalon
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