Re: [PATCH v2] Compiler Attributes: don't pollute userspace with macro definitions

From: Miguel Ojeda
Date: Fri Dec 14 2018 - 05:02:56 EST


On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:25 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Moving the __KERNEL__ guard should not affect the kernel, only what
> userspace sees. __gnu_inline only affects which
> implementation/definition you get, so even if userspace doesn't know
> what the kernel's inline is redefined to, it should not matter as
> userspace should only ever care about the function signature, which
> does not change between our definitions of inline.

Hm... I am unsure what you mean by this. Were you replying to me or to
the original patch?

Cheers,
Miguel