On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 01:25:08 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The assembler files in the kernel are *.S instead of *.s, so they must
> be preprocessed. Since 'as' of GNU binutils is not able to preprocess,
> we always use $(CC) as an assembler driver.
>
> $(AS) is almost unused in Kbuild. As of writing, there is just one place
> that directly invokes $(AS).
>
> $ git grep -e '$(AS)' -e '${AS}' -e '$AS' -e '$(AS:' -e '${AS:' -- :^Documentation
> drivers/net/wan/Makefile: AS68K = $(AS)
>
> The documentation about *_AFLAGS* sounds like the flags were passed
> to $(AS). This is somewhat misleading.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
Would you like me to send this up through the docs tree?
Thanks,
jon
