From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Gianni Tedesco <gianni@scaramanga.co.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <Linux-Kernel@Vger.Kernel.ORG>,
Linus Torvalds <Torvalds@Transmeta.COM>,
Andrew Morton <AKPM@Digeo.COM>
Subject: Re: const from include/asm-i386/byteorder.h
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:37:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030602133705.GH29425@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16091.14923.815819.792026@laputa.namesys.com>
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:51:39PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote:
>...
> --- 1.15/include/linux/compiler.h Wed Apr 9 22:15:46 2003
> +++ edited/include/linux/compiler.h Mon Jun 2 14:44:18 2003
>...
> +/* The attribute `const' is not implemented in GCC versions earlier than 2.5. */
> +/* Basically this is just slightly more strict class than the `pure'
> + attribute */
> +#if (__GNUC__ > 2) || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 5)
> +#define __attribute_const __attribute__ ((__const__))
> +#else
> +#define __attribute_const
> +#endif
>...
gcc 2.95 is the oldest compiler supported in kernel 2.5, there's no need
to be compatible with older compilers.
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-02 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-31 14:10 const from include/asm-i386/byteorder.h Nikita Danilov
2003-05-31 18:49 ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-05-31 18:57 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-02 11:51 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-06-02 12:14 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-02 12:36 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-06-02 12:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-02 12:59 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-06-02 13:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-02 13:21 ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-06-02 13:37 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2003-06-02 14:46 ` Nikita Danilov
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