Re: compile problems on PPC for 2.6.0-test4

[Dale Harris]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 10:08:34AM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt elucidated:
> 
> It shoud not be failing on this though:

No, it didn't fail, it was just a warning from the compiler.

> 
> #define mdelay(n) (\
> 	(__builtin_constant_p(n) && (n)<=MAX_UDELAY_MS) ? udelay((n)*1000) : \
> 	({unsigned long __ms=(n); while (__ms--) udelay(1000);}))
> 
> The __builtin_constant_p(5000) && (5000)<=5 test should fail thus
> turning into a loop of udelay(1000). Your gcc seems to be screwing
> it up. What version are you using ?

2.95.4, but this is from Debian unstable, package version: 2.95.4-17. 

> 
> The current bk snapshot I have here doesn't have a problem at this line.

BTW, I guess I wasn't compiling a straight vanilla kernel, it was off
your rsync server, source.mvista.com::linuxppc-2.5.  The vanilla kernel
bombs drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c on my laptop.


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