[PATCH v11 0/3] add diagnostics macros to make code portable

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri,  3 Jan 2025 07:36:48 -0800
Andre Muezerie <andremue at linux.microsoft.com> wrote:

> From: Andre Muezerie <andremue at linux.microsoft.com>
> To: andremue at linux.microsoft.com
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org,  stephen at networkplumber.org
> Subject: [PATCH v11 0/3] add diagnostics macros to make code portable
> Date: Fri,  3 Jan 2025 07:36:48 -0800
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> It was a common pattern to have "GCC diagnostic ignored" pragmas
> sprinkled over the code and only activate these pragmas for certain
> compilers (gcc and clang). Clang supports GCC's pragma for
> compatibility with existing source code, so #pragma GCC diagnostic
> and #pragma clang diagnostic are synonyms for Clang
> (https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html).
> 
> Now that effort is being made to make the code compatible with MSVC
> these expressions would become more complex. It makes sense to hide
> this complexity behind macros. This makes maintenance easier as these
> macros are defined in a single place. As a plus the code becomes
> more readable as well.

Since 90% of these cases are about removing const from a pointer,
maybe it would be better to have a macro that did that?

Would not work for base driver code which is pretending to be platform independent.