[PATCH v5 01/22] eal: provide macro to expand marker extensions

[Thomas Monjalon]

24/02/2024 09:21, Tyler Retzlaff:
> RTE_MARKER typedefs are a GCC extension unsupported by MSVC. Provide a
> new macro __rte_marker(type, name) that may be used to expand RTE_MARKER
> empty in struct definitions when building with MSVC.

I don't think we need to define a new marker macro.
I propose to simply not define them with MSVC, triggering a compilation error.
So we keep the old markers for applications which were not using MSVC anyway.
And inside DPDK libraries and drivers, we remove their usages.