Re: [Patch] asm workarounds in generic header files

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:33:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Then, have a config-time "set the right symbolic link" the same way we do 
> for "include/asm/", so that we can have a set of _clean_ 
> compiler-dependent abstractions.

I would prefer to have a compiler.h like this:

#if COMPILER=GCC-2.95
#include <compiler_gcc295.h
#endif

#if COMPILER=INTEL
#include <compiler_intel.h>
#endif

Better one more indirection in a simple compiler.h file than another symlink.
Symlinks should be used in rare cases only.

	Sam
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