Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: Check for CONFIG_READABLE_ASM when building .s targets

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 02:13:56PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> This violates the principle of least surprise:
> 
> make $file.s
> as -o $file.o $file.s
> 
> should be equivalent to
> 
> make $file.o

I know but we need to enable -g for .s targets so that we get the .loc
annotation (i.e., line numbers) in asm which is very helpful.

But the least surprise principle is a valid point. Maybe we should warn
about it too when building .s targets...?

Or, maybe I should try to find out whether there's another gcc option
which adds ".loc" annotations alone...

> Why not simply check both READABLE_ASM and DEBUG_INFO?  Also, it's more
> straightforward to print the warning in the top-level Makefile rule than
> to add a conditional to the generic rule, like this:

The problem here is that we're building a couple of .s targets
regardless of what the make command contains, like bounds.s and such.

And we want to issue the warning only when we have an .s file as
an explicit target on the command line. That's why I'm doing that
asm_target assignment dance and something similar to WARN_ON_ONCE...

Thanks.

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    Boris.

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