nullability annotations in C

Posted Feb 14, 2025 14:29 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: nullability annotations in C by taladar
Parent article: Maintainer opinions on Rust-for-Linux

Who even cares what they use for he development of the platform itself?

Developers shouldn't even care about that, it's internal implementations detail.

nullability annotations in C

Posted Feb 17, 2025 8:49 UTC (Mon) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link] (1 responses)

It is relevant for the language features that can be used in code backported to the versions of software used in their distro, the entire point of this discussion thread. Or rather the language features that can not be adopted yet because people who want to do those backports will complain.

nullability annotations in C

Posted Feb 17, 2025 9:15 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

How is that relevant? Linux kernel was all too happy to adopt features not implemented by clang, and patches needed to support clang – and clang, at that point, was already used by Android, the most popular Linux distrubution used by billions… why RHEL should be treated differently?

Let RHEL developers decide what to do with their kernel: they can create special kgcc package (like they already did years ago) or rework features in any way they like.