The minimum binutils version was bumped to 2.20 in 2017 so there is no longer a need to work around quirks in older versions than that. So drop some meaningless linker script assignments to '.' of ASSERT() return values. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/boot/setup.ld | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld b/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld index b11c45b9e51ed90e..a05dcaa4b74cd9f8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld +++ b/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld @@ -56,12 +56,8 @@ SECTIONS *(.note*) } - /* - * The ASSERT() sink to . is intentional, for binutils 2.14 compatibility: - */ - . = ASSERT(_end <= 0x8000, "Setup too big!"); - . = ASSERT(hdr == 0x1f1, "The setup header has the wrong offset!"); + ASSERT(_end <= 0x8000, "Setup too big!") + ASSERT(hdr == 0x1f1, "The setup header has the wrong offset!") /* Necessary for the very-old-loader check to work... */ - . = ASSERT(__end_init <= 5*512, "init sections too big!"); - + ASSERT(__end_init <= 5*512, "init sections too big!") } -- 2.39.2
