linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 2/9] compiler-gcc.h: Add gcc-recommended GCC

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Message-Id: <1352844821-18952-2-git-send-email-daniel.santos@pobox.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:13:34 -0600
From:	danielfsantos@....net
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Christopher Li <sparse@...isli.org>,
	Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@...ox.com>,
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	Pavel Pisa <pisa@....felk.cvut.cz>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH v5 2/9] compiler-gcc.h: Add gcc-recommended GCC_VERSION macro

Throughout compiler*.h, many version checks are made.  These can be
simplified by using the macro that gcc's documentation recommends.
However, my primary reason for adding this is that I need bug-check
macros that are enabled at certain gcc versions and it's cleaner to use
this macro than the tradition method:

if __GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ => 2)

If you add patch level, it gets this ugly:

if __GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && (__GNUC_MINOR__ > 2 || \
   __GNUC_MINOR__ == 2 __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ >= 1))

As opposed to:

if GCC_VERSION >= 40201

While having separate headers for gcc 3 & 4 eliminates some of this
verbosity, they can still be cleaned up by this.

See also:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Common-Predefined-Macros.html

Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@...ox.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
---
 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index 6a6d7ae..24545cd 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 /*
  * Common definitions for all gcc versions go here.
  */
+#define GCC_VERSION (__GNUC__ * 10000 \
+		   + __GNUC_MINOR__ * 100 \
+		   + __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__)
 
 
 /* Optimization barrier */
-- 
1.7.3.4

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