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Date:	Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:05:15 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel.h: Remove ancient __FUNCTION__ hack

On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 23:01 +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04 2015, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 21:55 +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 04 2015, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 10:48 +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> >> >> __FUNCTION__ hasn't been treated as a string literal since gcc 3.4, so
> >> >> this only helps people who only test-compile using 3.3
> >> >> (compiler-gcc3.h barks at anything older than that). Besides, there
> >> >> are almost no occurrences of __FUNCTION__ left in the tree.
> >> >
> >> > The remaining  uses of __FUNCTION__ need converting first.
> >> 
> >> Why? __FUNCTION__ is recognized just fine by gcc as an alias for __func__.
> >
> > And icc and clang and ...?
> 
> clang yes, icc probably (from quick googling). 

Cool, but it does seem safer/more conservative to me to
convert the last 3 uses before doing this.

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