Re: [PATCH 0/3] RFC: Allow C11 extensions in the passt/pasta code

[Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>]

On Tue,  1 Aug 2023 13:36:44 +1000
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> As discussed on our recent calls, the C11 standard introduces
> anonymous structure and union members and static assertions, amongst
> other things.  Both of these could be useful in a few places in
> passt/pasta to make the code more readable and safer.
> 
> However, at the moment, the compiler flags we use only allow C99 code.
> This series allows C11 code, and makes some fairly obvious cleanups by
> using it.
> 
> It would be nice to get an opinion on this reasonably quickly, because
> I have other patches in the works that will look different depending
> on whether or not they can use C11 features.

...then let me start with this one, as it's straightforward: I think
anonymous unions and structures are great. :)

The series (especially 2/3) looks good to me, I'll push it in a bit.

We also need to check for issues with reasonably older gcc (perhaps
those we have in the test/distro tests, at least) and clang versions,
unless you already did that.

-- 
Stefano