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zbobet2012
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The kernel is still c89.
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sp332
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I see that gnu89 is the default, to avoid compatibility problems with older code, but does that mean there is no code in the kernel which requires gnu99? I saw some work was done to make the whole kernel gnu11 compatible as well.
fahadkhan
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20600497/which-c-version...
sp332
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Right, but I was too lazy to do my own analysis and just extrapolated from that 2013 post to guess that the number is higher now.
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