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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:00:24 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: [PATCH 4/9] UML - Export gcov symbol based on 
     gcc version
From: stian@nixia.no
To: "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: "Jeff Dike" <jdike@addtoit.com>, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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>> > ( (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ == 3 && __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ >= 4)
>> > && \
>> >    HEAVILY_PATCHED_SUSE_GCC )
>> > I hope SuSE has added some #define to distinguish what they call  "gcc
>> > 3.3.4" from GNU gcc 3.3.4
>> It wasn't lost - I am just disinclined to cater to distros making their
>> gcc lie about its version.
> And therefore you added a patch that helps only those distros at the
> price of breaking other people and distros using sane compilers?

A dirty method would be to use a configure prinsip to test-compile, and
have a define that depends on it. Perhaps dirty, conserning kbuild, but
resolves problems, unless the alias symbol works.

Stian
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