Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Disallow GCC 4.1.0 / 4.1.1

Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02T16:50:43Z

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> @@ -36,12 +36,25 @@ extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
>
> #ifdef __KERNEL__
>
> -#if __GNUC__ >= 4
> +/*
> + * GCC 4.1.0 and 4.1.1 has a bug that can miscompile __weak symbols,
> + * by inlining __weak functions into same-file call sites - breaking the
> + * kernel if the __weak symbol is overriden later on.
> + *
> + * We have not found a clean way to work around this bug on the source
> + * code level, so we do not allow these compilers (which are quite
> + * rare these days, have other bugs and are superceded by the 4.1.2
> + * bugfix release anyway):
> + */
> +#define gcc41_inlining_bug \
> + (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ == 1 && __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ <= 1)
> +
> +#if __GNUC__ >= 4 && !gcc41_inlining_bug
> # include <linux/compiler-gcc4.h>

I think this is wrong.

Just move the check into <linux/compiler-gcc4.h>

It makes no sense to do stuff that is specific to gcc4 in the general gcc
header file. It seems you did this just in order to re-use a (bad) generic
error case.

Linus