Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] arm: lib: xor-neon: remove unnecessary GCC < 4.6 warning

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 2:04 PM David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Adrian Ratiu
> > Sent: 19 January 2021 13:17
> > To: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Drop warning because kernel now requires GCC >= v4.9 after
> > commit 6ec4476ac825 ("Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9")
> > and clarify that -ftree-vectorize now always needs enabling
> > for GCC by directly testing the presence of CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC.
> ...
> > -#if __GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 6)
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC
> >  #pragma GCC optimize "tree-vectorize"
> > -#else
>
> I thought that #pragma optimise was very likely to remove
> a random subset of the command line parameters leading to
> incorrect/unexpected code.
>
> As such the extra option needs to passed in as a per source
> file compiler option.

Yes, patch 2 in the series removes it from .c source, and passes
-ftree-vectorize during Kbuild.

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~Nick Desaulniers