Re: [PATCH] MIPS: remove GCC < 4.9 support

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Thu Nov 12 2020 - 19:27:38 EST


On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 4:19 PM Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
>
> > > Remove a tautology; since
> > > commit 0bddd227f3dc ("Documentation: update for gcc 4.9 requirement")
> > > which raised the minimally supported version of GCC to 4.9, this case is
> > > always true.
> > >
> > > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/427
> > > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > arch/mips/include/asm/compiler.h | 9 +--------
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > applied to mips-next.
>
> 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!
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers