Re: [PATCH] incomplete dependencies with BK tree (was: Anyone gotaic7xxx working with 2.4.26?)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 jamagallon@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> At least gcc3 has [v][s][n]printf and friends as builtins, and also has
> __builtin_va_list,_start,_end, etc, so it looks easy to get rid of the
> stdarg.h dependency.

No, let's _not_ start implementing stdarg.h inside the kernel. It's just 
too compiler-dependent (remember - gcc isn't even the only compiler people 
use).

How about just _always_ including stdarg.h, and doing it by just making 
the main Makefile add a "-include <pathname>" to the CFLAGS? We should be 
able to generate the stdarg.h pathname pretty easily, with something like

	gcc --print-file-name=include/stdarg.h

(and that may depend on gcc versions too, of course).

> I think gcc builtins are under-used in kernel...

They are just _way_ too unreliable. They come and go with compiler 
versions, and aren't documented anywhere.

		Linus
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