[Mesa-dev] uvd code break with C99 compile

[Dave Airlie]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Jose Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> Building on RHEL6 tinderbox, we get -std=c99, and the radeon uvd code
>> uses anonymous unions which this disables.
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>> It doesn't look too difficult to fix, just wondering if there was a
>> reason for using anon unions in the first place?
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> FWIW, anonymous unions are a de-facto standard supported by all compilers (including MSVC).  And are part of C11.
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> Jose

Yeah I've no idea why I'm building in the tinderbox with -std=c99 it
must be from the jhbuild setup,

I was just wondering we were okay with using them in Mesa at this point.

Dave.