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kbuild: Use '-fms-anonymous-structs' if it is available
authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:10:29 +0000 (12:10 -0700)
committerNicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:52:37 +0000 (12:52 +0100)
commit0d3fccf68d9873a3c824fb70be0dbb2c4642aa90
tree160d12c130d3e5b805de6b9e5c4cb46f17661692
parentec4c28276c140a9338700041112f64f8d7ccc3e9
kbuild: Use '-fms-anonymous-structs' if it is available

Clang recently added '-fms-anonymous-structs' [1] to specifically enable
the Microsoft tagged anonymous structure / union extension, for which
the kernel added '-fms-extensions' in commit c4781dc3d1cf ("Kbuild:
enable -fms-extensions"). Switch to this more narrow option if it is
available, which would have helped avoid the issue addressed by
commit a6773e6932cb ("jfs: Rename _inline to avoid conflict with clang's
'-fms-extensions'"). GCC has talked about adding a similar flag [2] as
well but potentially naming it differently.

Move the selection of the flag to Kconfig to make it easier to use
cc-option (as CC_FLAGS_DIALECT may be used in arch Makefiles, which may
be too early for cc-option in Kbuild) and customize based on compiler
flag names.

Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/c391efe6fb67329d8e2fd231692cc6b0ea902956
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123623
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223-fms-anonymous-structs-v1-2-8ee406d3c36c@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Makefile
init/Kconfig