Re: [PATCH] Wipe out traditional opt from x86_64 Makefile

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Oct 25 2007 - 13:23:36 EST


Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
Among other things, using -traditional as a gcc option stops us from
using macro token pasting, which is a feature we heavily rely on.

There was still a use of -traditional in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile_64,
which this patch removes.

I don't see any problems building kernels in my x86_64 box without
-traditional.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile_64 | 1 -
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile_64 b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile_64
index 82da906..03a01f6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile_64
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile_64
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
#
extra-y := head_64.o head64.o init_task.o vmlinux.lds
-#EXTRA_AFLAGS := -traditional
obj-y := process_64.o signal_64.o entry_64.o traps_64.o irq_64.o \
ptrace_64.o time_64.o ioport_64.o ldt_64.o setup_64.o i8259_64.o sys_x86_64.o \
x8664_ksyms_64.o i387_64.o syscall_64.o vsyscall_64.o \

At least *at one point*, ld scripts were whitespace-sensitive in a way that called for using -traditional. Doesn't mean that anything else needs it, though.

-hpa
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