Re: [PATCH v9 02/10] Makefile: Prepare for using macros for inline asm

[Nadav Amit]

From: Logan Gunthorpe
Sent: November 6, 2018 at 8:01:31 PM GMT
> To: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 02/10] Makefile: Prepare for using macros for inline asm
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> On 2018-11-06 12:18 p.m., Nadav Amit wrote:
>> Err.. I donât have a dist-cc environment. I wonder whether something like
>> that would do the trick:
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> I tested it to be sure -- but, no, this does not have any affect on
> distcc. Distcc usually does pre-processing locally and then sends the
> single output of cpp to a remote for compilation and assembly. It
> doesn't expect there to be additional assembly files tacked on the
> command line and isn't going to handle that case correctly. Thus,
> changing the path of the file won't fix anything.

Thanks for the explanation.

I played with dist-cc and gave it some thought, but I do not have a
solution. I thought that perhaps some hack is possible by using the same
preprocessed file can be used as both the source file and the assembly file,
but thatâs as far as I managed to get.

Ideas? Do people care about it?