linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: mostly disable '-maccumulate-outgoing-args'

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Message-ID: <20170316150752.20c698c4@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:07:52 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
        Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mostly disable '-maccumulate-outgoing-args'

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:04:01 -0500
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:

> > After some snooping I discovered there's some precedent for doing this
> > in the scripts/gcc-*.sh files.  So maybe I'll add a test there and call
> > it from the Makefile.  
> 
> But now I realize that those other tests are just build tests, whereas
> this one needs to be executed.  That's a no-go for cross compilers.  So
> I think we need to do the version check after all.
> 

Fine, but please add a comment saying such.

-- Steve