GCC hacks in the Linux kernel

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GCC hacks in the Linux kernel

Tuesday, November 25. 2008

Tim Jones has written an article on the gcc extensions that are used within the Linux kernel, such as zero-length arrays (normally arrays must have at least one element defined), type discovery, ranges within switch/case blocks and prefetching.

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