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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:H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by:
Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org>