From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 27 May 2002 22:24:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 27 May 2002 22:24:24 -0400 Received: from rj.SGI.COM ([192.82.208.96]:57773 "EHLO rj.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 27 May 2002 22:24:23 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Keith Owens To: Lista Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] PentiumPro/II split in x86 config In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 May 2002 23:16:47 -0300." <20020528021647.GE20729@conectiva.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 12:24:14 +1000 Message-ID: <3937.1022552654@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 27 May 2002 23:16:47 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: >Em Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:05:54PM +1000, Keith Owens escreveu: >> Better still, use the C language standard: >> >> .vendor = X86_VENDOR_INTEL, > >oops, gcc accepts that, good to know that this is standard C, but for the >kernel, I think that this doesn't matter as gcc is the only compiler that >understands the GCC Language 8) Or am I wrong? I'd love to be... 8) The kernel can only be compiled with gcc, but some bits of the build are compiled and run on the host, using the host compiler. Avoid using gccisms where there is a standard way of doing it.