Linus,
This patch updates include/linux/spinlock.h's comment regarding gcc
bugs for empty struct initializers, to correctly state that the bug
is present also in 2.95.x and at least early versions of 2.96 (as
reported by one Mandrake user).
/Mikael
--- linux-2.5.74/include/linux/spinlock.h.~1~ 2003-07-03 12:32:46.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.5.74/include/linux/spinlock.h 2003-07-03 16:07:59.772534704 +0200
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
} while (0)
#else
/*
- * gcc versions before ~2.95 have a nasty bug with empty initializers.
+ * gcc versions up to 2.95, and early versions of 2.96, have a nasty bug with empty initializers.
*/
#if (__GNUC__ > 2)
typedef struct { } spinlock_t;
-
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