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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

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  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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