linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: Explicitly disable asm goto w/ outputs on gcc-11 (and earlier)

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Message-ID: <Zc5laJzgwSPtHCTe@tucnak>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:26:32 +0100
From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@...il.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        "Andrew Pinski (QUIC)" <quic_apinski@...cinc.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: Explicitly disable asm goto w/ outputs on
 gcc-11 (and earlier)

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 11:17:44AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> but the manual addition of 'volatile' is unconditional.

That is just fine.  The extra keyword is not wrong, it is just redundant
with fixed compilers, where it doesn't change anything in the behavior.

	Jakub