Re: [PATCH v2 07/12] parisc/percpu: Work around the lack of __SIZEOF_INT128__

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Jun 02 2023 - 15:58:11 EST


On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 3:40 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "With 64bit builds depending on __SIZEOF_INT128__ to detect the
> presence of __int128 raise the parisc minimum compiler version to
> gcc-11.0.0."
>
> better?

I'd just say "64-bit targets need the __int128 type, which for pa-risc
means raising the minimum gcc version to 11".

The __SIZEOF_INT128__ part isn't the important part. That's just the symptom.

Linus