From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
To: Stevie O <stevie@qrpff.net>, Adam Kropelin <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>
Cc: Frank Davis <fdavis@si.rr.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@suse.de,
Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.8-dj1 : arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c error
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:29:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1870060000.1019089771@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020417185436.00aefdb8@whisper.qrpff.net>
>>> Even though clustered_apic_mode is 0, the compiler still complains
>>> about the second one and the first one doesn't depend on
>>> clustered_apic_mode at all.
>>
>> Hmmm ... not sure why the compiler complains about the second one,
>> that's very strange ;-)
>
> That's because we're using C. If we rewrote the kernel in FORTRAN, the
> FORTRAN compiler would happily let us redefine 0 to any other value :)
I think you're missing the point. It shouldn't be compiling that whole if
clause
at all, as far as I can see.
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-17 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-16 2:19 2.5.8-dj1 : arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c error Frank Davis
2002-04-17 2:47 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-04-17 4:59 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-04-17 12:30 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-04-17 12:40 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-04-17 15:28 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-04-17 19:17 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-04-17 19:31 ` Rick Stevens
2002-04-17 20:53 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-04-17 20:40 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-04-17 21:17 ` Rick Stevens
2002-04-17 21:49 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-04-17 22:06 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-04-18 0:34 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-04-18 2:16 ` Stevie O
2002-04-17 20:49 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-04-17 22:56 ` Stevie O
2002-04-18 0:29 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-04-21 13:37 ` [PATCH] " Brian Gerst
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