Re: [PATCH] reorganize <linux/linkage.h>

[David Miller]

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:58:56 -0700 (PDT)

> I'm starting to suspect that it's the fact that some architectures still 
> have
> 
> 	EXTRA_AFLAGS  := -traditional
> 
> or equivalent and I'm wondering whether that is really necessary. IIRC x86 
> got rid of the use of --traditional a long time ago, exactly because it 
> caused problems with any fancier C preprocessor things.

A lot of it is probably simply copy and paste from other ports.

When I removed it from Sparc long ago, the only issue I had was that
there were some things using "/**/" concatenation in some sparc
assembler CPP macros, and those were easily fixed.
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