Re: [PATCH] kernel.h: Remove ancient __FUNCTION__ hack

From: Rasmus Villemoes
Date: Wed Feb 04 2015 - 15:55:16 EST


On Wed, Feb 04 2015, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 10:48 +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>> __FUNCTION__ hasn't been treated as a string literal since gcc 3.4, so
>> this only helps people who only test-compile using 3.3
>> (compiler-gcc3.h barks at anything older than that). Besides, there
>> are almost no occurrences of __FUNCTION__ left in the tree.
>
> The remaining uses of __FUNCTION__ need converting first.

Why? __FUNCTION__ is recognized just fine by gcc as an alias for __func__.

Rasmus
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