Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:49:06 +0200
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] UNREACHABLE() macro
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On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:55:25 -0700 (PDT)
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:

> > That's a bit of a mouthful.  Did you consider a runtime probe with
> > scripts/Kbuild.include's try-run, cc-option, etc?  
> 
> I did not see any precedent in the sources for using those to test for
> features by compiling particular test sources (i.e. in autoconf

look at the stackprotector flags.. they work this way already.
It gets done once per kernel build...


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