Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH 25/33] kbuild: use POSIX BRE in headers install target

From: Mike Frysinger
Date: Sat Jul 21 2007 - 18:13:40 EST


On 7/21/07, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 06:03:00PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 7/21/07, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I would much more prefer this functionality to be integrated into unifdef.
> >There is no good reason to have two different preprocesisng methonds, one
> >being the sed based one and the other the unidef one.
> >
> >A sinlge dedicated program that contian the sum of the functionality would
> >be faster too.
>
> which functionality ? normalizing of whitespace or all these
> linux-specific hacks ? unifdef serves one specific function which is
> stated in its manpage: remove preprocessor conditionals from code.

At present the kernel has a private copy of unidef. So adjusting the
private copy for the needs of the kernels seems like a god plan.

didnt realize the kernel had integrated it since it didnt at first ...
so yeah, extending it however we see fit should be fine
-mike
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