On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:16:43 PDT, "Paul E. McKenney" said:

> I agree that instant gratification is hard to come by when synching
> up compiler and kernel versions.  Nonetheless, it should be possible
> to create APIs that are are conditioned on the compiler version.

We've tried that, sort of.  See the mess surrounding the whole
extern/static/inline/__whatever boondogle, which seems to have
changed semantics in every single gcc release since 2.95 or so.

And recently mention was made that gcc4.4 will have *new* semantics
in this area. Yee. Hah.