On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 10:28:40AM -0500, Ben Magistro wrote:
> There is a thread discussing a change to the standard [1] but I have
> not seen anything explicit yet about moving to C11. I am personally in
> favor of making the jump to C11 now as part of the 23.x branch and
> provided my thoughts in the linked thread (what other projects using
> DPDK have as minimum compiler requirements, CentOS 7 EOL dates).
> Is the long term plan to backport this change set to the existing LTS
> release or is this meant to be something introduced for use in 23.x and
> going forward? I think I was (probably naively) assuming this would be
> a new feature in the 23.x going forward only.
> [1] [1]http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2023-February/262188.html
>
We don't bump requirements for older LTS releases, so any change to minimum
required versions would only be for the 23.x series releases
I meant the atomics change set, I should have been clearer in that question, my apologies. If the atomic work is planned to be backported, the question of if/when the C11 standard would be adopted seems less relevant since it would need to be supported for DPDK versions that do not have the C11 standard requirement too.