From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: kyle@mcmartin.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
roland@redhat.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com,
schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reorganize <linux/linkage.h>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:26:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080411.112631.218741504.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0804110747370.3143@woody.linux-foundation.org>
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:58:56 -0700 (PDT)
> I'm starting to suspect that it's the fact that some architectures still
> have
>
> EXTRA_AFLAGS := -traditional
>
> or equivalent and I'm wondering whether that is really necessary. IIRC x86
> got rid of the use of --traditional a long time ago, exactly because it
> caused problems with any fancier C preprocessor things.
A lot of it is probably simply copy and paste from other ports.
When I removed it from Sparc long ago, the only issue I had was that
there were some things using "/**/" concatenation in some sparc
assembler CPP macros, and those were easily fixed.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-11 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-11 5:00 Kyle McMartin
2008-04-11 14:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-11 18:26 ` David Miller [this message]
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