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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] UML - Export gcov symbol based on gcc version
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:55:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050311165526.GA3723@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503111849.j2BImsJp003370@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:48:54PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote:
> bunk@stusta.de said:
> > This patch is still wrong.
> > It seems my comment on this [1] was lost:
> > <--  snip  -->
> > This line has to be something like
> > ( (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ == 3 && __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ >= 4)
> > && \
> >    HEAVILY_PATCHED_SUSE_GCC ) 
> 
> > I hope SuSE has added some #define to distinguish what they call  "gcc
> > 3.3.4" from GNU gcc 3.3.4 
> 
> It wasn't lost - I am just disinclined to cater to distros making their
> gcc lie about its version.

And therefore you added a patch that helps only those distros at the 
price of breaking other people and distros using sane compilers?

> 				Jeff

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


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-11 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-10  2:16 [PATCH 4/9] UML - Export gcov symbol based on gcc version Jeff Dike
2005-03-10 22:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-10 23:21   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-11 17:00     ` [uml-devel] " Blaisorblade
2005-03-11 18:47     ` Jeff Dike
2005-03-11 17:01   ` [uml-devel] " Blaisorblade
2005-03-11 18:48   ` Jeff Dike
2005-03-11 16:55     ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2005-03-11 17:00       ` [uml-devel] " stian
2005-03-11 23:53       ` Jeff Dike
2005-03-11 23:37         ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-12  3:45           ` Jeff Dike
2005-03-11 19:35 ` [uml-devel] " Blaisorblade

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