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Subject: Re: Error building v5.5-git on PowerPC32 - bisected to commit
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From:   Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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On 2/6/20 5:33 PM, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 06:12:13PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 04:46:52PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>>> When building post V5.5 on my PowerBook G4 Aluminum, the build failed with the
>>> following error:
>>
>> It's not that the attributes are wrong. The problem is that BUILD_BUG_ON
>> requires a compile-time evaluatable condition. gcc-4.6 is apparently not
>> good enough at optimizing to reduce that expression to a constant,
>> though it was able to do it with the array accesses.
> 
> Should have noted, it fails on x86 too with gcc-4.6.4, not specific to PPC.

What pre-processor test would be correct to skip the test for gcc4?

Larry