Re: [PATCH kernel v2] powerpc/makefile: Do not redefine $(CPP) for preprocessor

From: Segher Boessenkool
Date: Tue May 11 2021 - 19:23:43 EST


On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 11:30:17PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> >In any case, please mention the reasoning (and the fact that you are
> >removing these flags!) in the commit message. Thanks!
>
> but i did mention this, the last paragraph... they are duplicated.

Oh! I completely missed those few lines. Sorry for that :-(

To compensate a bit:

> It still puzzles me why we need -C
> (preserve comments in the preprocessor output) flag here.

It is so that a human can look at the output and read it. Comments are
very significant to human readers :-)


Segher