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Date:   Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:19:50 +0000 (GMT)
From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
        clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com,
        Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>,
        Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@baikalelectronics.ru>,
        linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: remove GCC < 4.9 support
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On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:

> > Remove a tautology; since
> > commit 0bddd227f3dc ("Documentation: update for gcc 4.9 requirement")
> > which raised the minimally supported version of GCC to 4.9, this case is
> > always true.
> > 
> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/427
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/mips/include/asm/compiler.h | 9 +--------
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> applied to mips-next.

 It probably makes sense to get rid of GCC_OFF_SMALL_ASM altogether, as 
this syntactical indirection brings us nothing at this point and only 
obfuscates sources.

  Maciej