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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 11:56:05 -0800
From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>,
David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, Alex Shi <alexs@...nel.org>,
Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Kbuild: use -std=gnu11 for KBUILD_USERCFLAGS
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 6:52 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>
> As we change the C language standard for the kernel from gnu89 to
> gnu11, it makes sense to also update the version for user space
> compilation.
>
> Some users have older native compilers than what they use for
> kernel builds, so I considered using gnu99 as the default version
> for wider compatibility with gcc-4.6 and earlier.
>
> However, testing with older compilers showed that we already require
> HOSTCC version 5.1 as well because a lot of host tools include
> linux/compiler.h that uses __has_attribute():
>
> CC tools/objtool/exec-cmd.o
> In file included from tools/include/linux/compiler_types.h:36:0,
> from tools/include/linux/compiler.h:5,
> from exec-cmd.c:2:
> tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:19:5: error: "__has_attribute" is not defined [-Werror=undef]
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Thanks for the patches!
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
> ---
> Makefile | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 37ef6a555dcd..7c9be7f1ccd4 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ HOSTCXX = g++
> endif
>
> export KBUILD_USERCFLAGS := -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes \
> - -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -std=gnu89 \
> + -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -std=gnu11 \
> -Wdeclaration-after-statement
> export KBUILD_USERLDFLAGS :=
>
> --
> 2.29.2
>
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
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