Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753291AbZIKBjE (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:39:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752724AbZIKBjE (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:39:04 -0400 Received: from mx1-old.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:49223 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752634AbZIKBjC (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:39:02 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Linus Torvalds X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , David Daney , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] x86: Convert BUG() to use unreachable() In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds's message of Thursday, 10 September 2009 18:13:07 -0700 References: <4AA991C1.1050800@caviumnetworks.com> <1252627011-2933-2-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> <4AA9A031.5000602@zytor.com> Emacs: if SIGINT doesn't work, try a tranquilizer. Message-Id: <20090911013743.1CF13AEF@magilla.sf.frob.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:37:43 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 603 Lines: 15 > There are other cases where that kind of config-time testing could be > useful, and we could avoid doing various gcc checks dynamically from > within 'make' (along with checking for known-buggy versions etc). I quite agree that this would be an improvement for many sorts of compiler feature (and other tool detail) conditionalization. Thanks, Roland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/