Hi Geert,
On 2019/10/23 14:44, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 8:17 AM Shaokun Zhang
> <zhangshaokun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> +Cc: Mark Salyzyn
>>
>> There is a compiler failure on arm64 platform, as follow:
>> zhangshaokun@ubuntu:~/linux-next$ make -j64
>> CALL scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
>> CC arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.s
>> In file included from ./include/linux/sysctl.h:30:0,
>> from ./include/linux/umh.h:9,
>> from ./include/linux/kmod.h:9,
>> from ./include/linux/module.h:13,
>> from ./include/linux/acpi.h:29,
>> from ./include/acpi/apei.h:9,
>> from ./include/acpi/ghes.h:5,
>> from ./include/linux/arm_sdei.h:8,
>> from arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c:10:
>> ./include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h:561:29: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘}’ before ‘__attribute__’
>> NET_IPV6_TEMP_PREFERED_LFT __attribute__((deprecated)) = /* NOTYPO */
>> ^
>> scripts/Makefile.build:99: recipe for target 'arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.s' failed
>> make[1]: *** [arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1
>> Makefile:1108: recipe for target 'prepare0' failed
>> make: *** [prepare0] Error 2
>>
>> It's the commit <79f0cf35dccb> ("treewide: cleanup: replace prefered with preferred").
>
> After receiving a report from kisskb for failures for m68k, looking at
> http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/f3c452cfc59c817950b150b51ec2b33409d7640b/
> and doing some testing, it looks like this construct is supported by gcc-7
> and gcc-8, but not by gcc-4.6.3 and gcc-5. Don't know about gcc-6.
>
GCC version is 5.4.0
zhangshaokun@ubuntu:~/linux-next$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10) 5.4.0 20160609
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Thanks,
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> -- Linus Torvalds
>
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