In article <20010804021304.A21339@werewolf.able.es> you write:
> I have heard many times that kernel is not thought to be compiled by
> anything but gcc. Please, start useing gcc features
-- There is little point in using gcc-specific features when there is
a completely standard idiom that does the job just as well. Unless your
goal is to obliterate all potential hopes to compile the kernel with
another compiler at some time in the future.
-- I heard that the gcc people are not especially happy with that
feature anyway, and they will maintain it only for compatibility;
which means any potential optimisation will rather go into the
standard construct (the do...while(0)) rather than the gcc-ism.
--Thomas Pornin
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Aug 07 2001 - 21:00:33 EST