Commit 2fb6915f authored by H. Peter Anvin's avatar H. Peter Anvin
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compiler_types.h: add "auto" as a macro for "__auto_type"



"auto" was defined as a keyword back in the K&R days, but as a storage
type specifier.  No one ever used it, since it was and is the default
storage type for local variables.

C++11 recycled the keyword to allow a type to be declared based on the
type of an initializer.  This was finally adopted into standard C in
C23.

gcc and clang provide the "__auto_type" alias keyword as an extension
for pre-C23, however, there is no reason to pollute the bulk of the
source base with this temporary keyword; instead define "auto" as a
macro unless the compiler is running in C23+ mode.

This macro is added in <linux/compiler_types.h> because that header is
included in some of the tools headers, wheres <linux/compiler.h> is
not as it has a bunch of very kernel-specific things in it.

[ Cc: stable to reduce potential backporting burden. ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
parent c2f2b01b
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#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__

/*
 * C23 introduces "auto" as a standard way to define type-inferred
 * variables, but "auto" has been a (useless) keyword even since K&R C,
 * so it has always been "namespace reserved."
 *
 * Until at some future time we require C23 support, we need the gcc
 * extension __auto_type, but there is no reason to put that elsewhere
 * in the source code.
 */
#if __STDC_VERSION__ < 202311L
# define auto __auto_type
#endif

/*
 * Skipped when running bindgen due to a libclang issue;
 * see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/issues/2244.