[PATCH v2] build: announce requirement for C11

[Bruce Richardson]

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>

---

V2:
- add requirement for stdatomics
- fix sphinx formatting
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index dcc1ca1696..70c6019d26 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,15 @@ here.
 Deprecation Notices
 -------------------
 
+* C Compiler: From DPDK 23.11 onwards,
+  building DPDK will require a C compiler which supports the C11 standard,
+  including support for C11 standard atomics.
+
+  Please note:
+
+  * C11 is supported from GCC version 5 onwards, and is the default language version in that release
+  * C11 is the default compilation mode in Clang from version 3.6
+
 * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
   for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.
 
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