From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754972AbbJOHR2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2015 03:17:28 -0400 Received: from webbox1416.server-home.net ([77.236.96.61]:57008 "EHLO webbox1416.server-home.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754065AbbJOHRY (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2015 03:17:24 -0400 From: Alexander Stein To: Mikko Rapeli Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/79] scripts/headers_compile_test.sh: compile test script for exported headers Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:17:18 +0200 Message-ID: <2701572.2qlRK3qY0P@ws-stein> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/4.0.5-gentoo; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1444888618-4506-3-git-send-email-mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> References: <1444888618-4506-1-git-send-email-mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> <1444888618-4506-3-git-send-email-mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Mikko, On Thursday 15 October 2015 07:55:40, Mikko Rapeli wrote: > Users of kernel header files would be happier if they did not contain > kernel specific parts and would contain #include statements for all > other header files that they depend on, and in general would compile. > > For each header file exported to userspace, this script creates > a simple .c file which just includes the header file. Then it > tries to compile it together with minimal header files from GCC > and libc, and reports results. Just an idea: Why not try to create a pre-compiled header (pch) instead. So you can get rid of creating temporary .c files for each header. Best regards, Alexander