Hi, On 03.12.2020 13:57, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > Linus pointed out a third of the time in the Kconfig parse stage comes > from the single invocation of cc1plus in scripts/gcc-plugin.sh [1], > and directly testing plugin-version.h for existence cuts down the > overhead a lot. [2] > > This commit takes one step further to kill the build test entirely. > > The small piece of code was probably intended to test the C++ designated > initializer, which was not supported until C++20. > > In fact, with -pedantic option given, both GCC and Clang emit a warning. > > $ echo 'class test { public: int test; } test = { .test = 1 };' | g++ -x c++ -pedantic - -fsyntax-only > <stdin>:1:43: warning: C++ designated initializers only available with '-std=c++2a' or '-std=gnu++2a' [-Wpedantic] > $ echo 'class test { public: int test; } test = { .test = 1 };' | clang++ -x c++ -pedantic - -fsyntax-only > <stdin>:1:43: warning: designated initializers are a C++20 extension [-Wc++20-designator] > class test { public: int test; } test = { .test = 1 }; > ^ > 1 warning generated. > > Otherwise, modern C++ compilers should be able to build the code, and > hopefully skipping this test should not make any practical problem. > > Checking the existence of plugin-version.h is still needed to ensure > the plugin-dev package is installed. The test code is now small enough > to be embedded in scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjU4DCuwQ4pXshRbwDCUQB31ScaeuDo1tjoZ0_PjhLHzQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whK0aQxs6Q5ijJmYF1n2ch8cVFSUzU5yUM_HOjig=+vnw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch landed in linux next-20201217 as commit 1e860048c53e ("gcc-plugins: simplify GCC plugin-dev capability test"). It causes a build break with my tests setup, but I'm not sure weather it is really an issue of this commit or a toolchain I use. However I've checked various versions of the gcc cross-compilers released by Linaro at https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ and all fails with the same error: $ make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=../../cross/gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-x86_64-arm-none-eabi/bin/arm-none-eabi- zImage HOSTCXX scripts/gcc-plugins/arm_ssp_per_task_plugin.so In file included from /home/mszyprow/dev/cross/gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-x86_64-arm-none-eabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/10.2.1/plugin/include/gcc-plugin.h:28:0, from scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h:7, from scripts/gcc-plugins/arm_ssp_per_task_plugin.c:3: /home/mszyprow/dev/cross/gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-x86_64-arm-none-eabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/10.2.1/plugin/include/system.h:687:10: fatal error: gmp.h: No such file or directory #include <gmp.h> ^~~~~~~ compilation terminated. scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile:47: recipe for target 'scripts/gcc-plugins/arm_ssp_per_task_plugin.so' failed make[2]: *** [scripts/gcc-plugins/arm_ssp_per_task_plugin.so] Error 1 scripts/Makefile.build:496: recipe for target 'scripts/gcc-plugins' failed make[1]: *** [scripts/gcc-plugins] Error 2 Makefile:1190: recipe for target 'scripts' failed make: *** [scripts] Error 2 Compilation works if I use the cross-gcc provided by gcc-7-arm-linux-gnueabi/gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi Ubuntu packages, which is: $ arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc --version arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 7.5.0 Best regards -- Marek Szyprowski, PhD Samsung R&D Institute Poland