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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][SPARSE] Runtime detection of gcc include paths
Date: 8 Jun 2003 20:51:18 -0700
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306081807500.1849-100000@home.transmeta.com>
By author:    Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Ryan Anderson wrote:
> >
> > This uses the same method as previously was used, it just performs the
> > lookup at runtime.
> 
> I much prefer a compile-time thing.
> 
> Performance is, to me, paramount for "checker". I don't want to slow it 
> down, I'm hoping that some day we can just enable C=1 by default in the 
> kernel build (this is a _long_ time off, though, don't you all start 
> worrying now).
> 
> I don't see anything wrong with a compile/install time thing, that is, 
> after all, how gcc too works.
> 

Both of these seem a little unnecessary.  Why not pass this stuff on
the command line, and have the top-level Makefile extract the paths
into a command-line argument?

	-hpa
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