Re: [PATCH v4 02/79] scripts/headers_compile_test.sh: compile test script for exported headers

From: Alexander Stein
Date: Thu Oct 15 2015 - 03:17:31 EST


Hi Mikko,

On Thursday 15 October 2015 07:55:40, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> Users of kernel header files would be happier if they did not contain
> kernel specific parts and would contain #include statements for all
> other header files that they depend on, and in general would compile.
>
> For each header file exported to userspace, this script creates
> a simple .c file which just includes the header file. Then it
> tries to compile it together with minimal header files from GCC
> and libc, and reports results.

Just an idea: Why not try to create a pre-compiled header (pch) instead. So you can get rid of creating temporary .c files for each header.

Best regards,
Alexander

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