linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf tools: use ansi versions of asm and volatile

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Message-ID: <CALkWK0mWn2OKn4o4zLWz0Vck8DNT0kreq-c83oQkkx4LSO-42w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:44:36 +0530
From:	Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: use ansi versions of asm and volatile

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 04:16:26PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> asm and volatile are provided for backward compatibility; use the ansi
>> versions __asm__ and __volatile__.
>>
>
> I won't object much to this; but I have to note that the entire kernel
> tree is loaded with the non-ansi variant and thus we're fairly certain
> it will continue working :-)

Oh well, atleast the definition of barrier() is consistent with the
one in linux/compiler-gcc.h.
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