Re: [linux-next][bisected c7c133f3][gcc 4.8.5] build fail with error: first argument to â__builtin_choose_exprâ not a constant

From: Abdul Haleem
Date: Wed Mar 14 2018 - 05:59:24 EST


On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 19:39 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Abdul,
>
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:59:54 +0530 Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Today's next kernel fails to build with gcc 4.8.5 on powerpc machine.
>
> Thanks for the report. Just for the future, please include the
> next-XXXXXXXX tag when making reports about linux-next.

Sure, I will. next-20180313 is the bad tag
>
> > ./include/linux/jiffies.h: In function âjiffies_delta_to_clock_tâ:
> > ./include/linux/kernel.h:855:2: error: first argument to â__builtin_choose_exprâ not a constant
> > __builtin_choose_expr(__builtin_constant_p(x) && \
> > ^
> > ./include/linux/kernel.h:867:19: note: in expansion of macro â__maxâ
> > #define max(x, y) __max(typeof(x), typeof(y), x, y)
> >
> > Machine Type: Power8 Baremetal
> > gcc: 4.8.5
> >
> >
> > Builds fine when below patch is reverted
> > c7c133f3 kernel.h: skip single-eval logic on literals in min()/max()
>
> Those patches have been removed from today's linux-next (next-20180314).

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Regard's

Abdul Haleem
IBM Linux Technology Centre