On 10/06/2012 06:10 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 02:42:42PM -0500, danielfsantos@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> Using GCC_VERSION reduces complexity, is easier to read and is GCC's
>> recommended mechanism for doing version checks. (Just don't ask me why
>> they didn't define it in the first place.) This also makes it easy to
>> merge compiler-gcc{,3,4}.h should somebody want to.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>
> [ … ]
>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
>> index 4506d65..bbfeb13 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
>> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>>
>> /* GCC 4.1.[01] miscompiles __weak */
>> #ifdef __KERNEL__
>> -# if __GNUC_MINOR__ == 1 && __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ <= 1
>> +# if GCC_VERSION >= 40100 && GCC_VERSION <= 40101
>> //# error Your version of gcc miscompiles the __weak directive
>
> Did I miss something again? This "error" preprocessor function is
> commented out here? Why?
We'll have to ask Andrew. Maybe so he can test on those versions of gcc?
commit d3ffe64a1dbcfe18b57f90f7c01c40c93d0a8b92
Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Sep 28 00:02:42 2012 +0000
a
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
index 934bc34..997fd8a 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
/* GCC 4.1.[01] miscompiles __weak */
#ifdef __KERNEL__
# if __GNUC_MINOR__ == 1 && __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ <= 1
-# error Your version of gcc miscompiles the __weak directive
+//# error Your version of gcc miscompiles the __weak directive
# endif
#endif
I can provide you a version of these patches rebased against Linus if
you like, which I am using to test since the -mm & -next trees aren't
working on my machine (hardware, .config and/or LVM/RAID setup). I
haven't put Walken's patches underneath them however.
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