Re: Error building v5.5-git on PowerPC32 - bisected to commit 7befe621ff81

Arvind Sankar
2020-02-06T23:33:30Z

On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 06:12:13PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 04:46:52PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> > When building post V5.5 on my PowerBook G4 Aluminum, the build failed with the
> > following error:
>
> It's not that the attributes are wrong. The problem is that BUILD_BUG_ON
> requires a compile-time evaluatable condition. gcc-4.6 is apparently not
> good enough at optimizing to reduce that expression to a constant,
> though it was able to do it with the array accesses.

Should have noted, it fails on x86 too with gcc-4.6.4, not specific to PPC.