Re: [2.6 patch] add compiler-gcc4.h

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Sat Feb 05 2005 - 08:55:15 EST


On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:04:46AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <41FCFED4.1070301@xxxxxxxxxx>
> By author: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Hi!
> > But maybe gcc 4 will get different later, so I think this patch makes sense.
> >
>
> No, it doesn't. You fork when you have a reason. Eager forking is
> *BAD*.

As I already said in this thread:
The currently used file for gcc 4 is compiler-gcc+.h, not
compiler-gcc3.h .

And the current setup is to have one file for every major number of gcc.
I have no strong opinion whether this approach or the approach of one
file for all gcc versions is better - but with the current approach,
everything else than a separate file for gcc 4 wasn't logical.

I can offer the following choices:
- please apply this compiler-gcc4.h patch
- let me send a patch merging all compiler-gcc*.h files into one
compiler-gcc.h file
- let me send a patch merging all compiler-gcc*.h files back into
compiler.h

> -hpa

cu
Adrian

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