On 10/25/2010 08:17 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > How about just removing the idiotic workaround entirely, and then on > x86 passing "-traditional" to cpp for asm input so that it doesn't add > spaces in argument expansion? Make the workaround more targeted to the > actual problem, rather than working around it in some unrelated > thing.. > We already tried using -traditional, it didn't help the gas braindamage and it caused severe problems with header files (since -traditional removes the support for #x and x ## y). Bringing it back won't help. As such, the only options I can really think about overriding the sed expression for x86 or just saying gcc 2.16.90 or later is required... -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html