[PATCH v3] build: announce requirement for C11

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Thu Jul 20 10:22:33 CEST 2023


On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 06:34:00PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Add a deprecation notice informing users that we will require a C11
> compiler from 23.11 release onwards. This requirement was agreed by
> technical board to enable use of newer C language features, e.g.
> standard atomics. [1]
> 
> [1] http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/DBAPR08MB58148CEC3E1454E8848A938998AB9@DBAPR08MB5814.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla at linux.microsoft.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> V3:
> - add additional detail following discussion on-list
> 
> V2:
> - add requirement for stdatomics
> - fix sphinx formatting
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
> 
Ping for additional review/acks and merge.

This deprecation notice really needs to go into 23.07 to allow the C11
requirement to be met in 23.11!

Thanks,
/Bruce


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