Re: [RFC patch 6/9] POWERPC remove -traditional

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Paul Mackerras (paulus@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Mathieu Desnoyers writes:
> > Subject: [RFC patch 6/9] Re: [PATCH] Stringify support commas
> >  > This is a no-no for those archs that still use -traditional.
> >  > > I dunno if this is a problem for you at the moment and the
> >  > > right fix is anyway to nuke -traditional.
> >  > > 
> >  > >     Sam
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: paulus@xxxxxxxxx
> > CC: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxx
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Looks OK.  I'll put it in my tree.
> 
> Paul.

OK, although it won't be needed with v2 of the stringify with commas.
There seems to be some important details which differ between
-traditional and stdc gcc operation which makes it non-trivial to remove
the -traditional, at least on sparc. Maybe Kyle could tell us a bit more
about the nature of these limitations ?

I would wait a bit before merging until we at least identify what those
limitations are.

Mathieu

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