linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: remove GCC

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Date:   Fri, 13 Nov 2020 03:27:10 +0000 (GMT)
From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
cc:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: remove GCC < 4.9 support

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Nick Desaulniers wrote:

> >  It probably makes sense to get rid of GCC_OFF_SMALL_ASM altogether, as
> > this syntactical indirection brings us nothing at this point and only
> > obfuscates sources.
> 
> Sure, that sounds good. Send a patch!

 Well, I have felt satisfied enough with making the original patch, commit 
b0984c43702f ("MIPS: Fix microMIPS LL/SC immediate offsets"), so I'll give 
someone else the chance to take the pride of undoing it now, now that it's 
not needed anymore.

  Maciej