Currently BUILD_BUG() macro is expanded to smth like the following: do { extern void __compiletime_assert_0(void) __attribute__((error("BUILD_BUG failed"))); if (!(!(1))) __compiletime_assert_0(); } while (0); If used in a function body this obviously would produce build errors with -Wnested-externs and -Werror. To enable BUILD_BUG() usage in tools/arch/x86/lib/insn.c which perf includes in intel-pt-decoder, build perf without -Wnested-externs. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Resend with no fancy signatures. tools/perf/Makefile.config | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.config b/tools/perf/Makefile.config index 854da830b5ca..834061e94e7c 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Makefile.config +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.config @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ $(shell printf "" > $(OUTPUT).config-detected) detected = $(shell echo "$(1)=y" >> $(OUTPUT).config-detected) detected_var = $(shell echo "$(1)=$($(1))" >> $(OUTPUT).config-detected) -CFLAGS := $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(EXTRA_WARNINGS) +CFLAGS := $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(filter-out -Wnested-externs,$(EXTRA_WARNINGS)) include $(srctree)/tools/scripts/Makefile.arch -- 2.25.4