linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] reorganize <linux/linkage.h>

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Message-Id: <20080411.112631.218741504.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:26:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	kyle@...artin.ca, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, roland@...hat.com,
	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, schwidefsky@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reorganize <linux/linkage.h>

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:58:56 -0700 (PDT)

> I'm starting to suspect that it's the fact that some architectures still 
> have
> 
> 	EXTRA_AFLAGS  := -traditional
> 
> or equivalent and I'm wondering whether that is really necessary. IIRC x86 
> got rid of the use of --traditional a long time ago, exactly because it 
> caused problems with any fancier C preprocessor things.

A lot of it is probably simply copy and paste from other ports.

When I removed it from Sparc long ago, the only issue I had was that
there were some things using "/**/" concatenation in some sparc
assembler CPP macros, and those were easily fixed.
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