linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel: add support for gcc 5

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Message-ID: <54092FE0.3030004@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 04 Sep 2014 23:37:04 -0400
From:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
CC:	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>, akpm@...uxfoundation.org,
	mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: add support for gcc 5

On 09/04/2014 07:47 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 00:43 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>> > Most statements are already depending on GCC_VERSION, maybe we can just
>> > unify all gcc specific headers to one, still trying to keep the file
>> > organized? ;)
> Maybe something like:
> 
> gnu development of gcc will be more frequent and the use of
> compiler-gcc<major>.h likely will not be convenient anymore.
> 
> Integrate the individual compiler-gcc<major>.h files into
> compiler-gcc.h.

Please no. We have a similar file we maintain in our team that's supposed to
do something very similar for kernel versions. It goes all the way back to
2.6.9 and it's a *horrible* mess.

This is how compiler-gcc.h will end up looking in a while.


Thanks,
Sasha
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