linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 34/41] sparc: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER_

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Message-Id: <579ca73e-3b55-4e05-88ae-d7bc192f0023@app.fastmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 10:00:27 +0200
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Thomas Huth" <thuth@...hat.com>,
 "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
 "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 "Andreas Larsson" <andreas@...sler.com>, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 34/41] sparc: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-uapi
 headers

On Mon, Aug 4, 2025, at 08:01, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 03/08/2025 15.33, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

>
> So using -ansi in the kernel sources nowadays sounds wrong to me ... could 
> it be removed?

Probably: I see that sparc changed '-traditional' cpp flag to the '-ansi'
gcc flag in linux-2.1.88, while the others were still using
-traditional but just dropped it later.

Most likely the idea at the time was to just no longer use pre-ansi
preprocessing rather than to exclude gnu extensions.

     Arnd