Re: [Announcement] linux-2.0.40-rc1

[David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:28:51AM +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> David Weinehall wrote:
> > Hence I'm declaring this the first release candidate for 2.0.40.
> > Try it out, please.
> > 
> > 2.0.40-rc1
> [snip]
> > o       Change array-size from 0 to 1 for       (me)
> >         two arrays in the symbol-table
> >         in include/linux/module.h
> 
> Please revert above change. It makes struct symbol_table.symbol[] one
> entry long, and effectively _kills_ module support.

Well, I don't really like the magic used in module.h one bit, but I'll
revert this for now.

Anyone who could comment on whether usage of [] instead of [0] would
be better? [0] seems to have been deprecated in later versions of gcc,
so there _has_ to be some legal way of expressing what the kernel wants
to do here.


/David Weinehall
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