linux-kernel - Re: ftrace breaks sparc64 build

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Date:	Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:14:22 -0500 (EST)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	sparclinux <sparclinux@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ftrace breaks sparc64 build


On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> > Is this all sparc cross compiler?  I'm trying to reproduce it on x86 with 
> > no avail :-(
> > 
> > I would like to test other ways to change the macro, but to do so, I need 
> > to get a compiler that will produce the warnings that you see. What 
> > version of gcc are you using?
> 
> I used crosstool to build a 3.4.5 gcc:

Hmm, that's a pretty old compiler. I wonder if it wouldn't just help
if we just make the branch tracer dependent on the compiler used. That is.

#if defined(CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES) && (__GNUC__ >= 4)
#define if(cond) ...

Or something :-/

-- Steve
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