From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
To: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/15] Compiler Attributes
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 13:13:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANiq72=Aom+D8LsvMDgD3Am9n3DH13CzZKuL3dfanyqFEGyNbA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180924143608.aiyehiibgc7isk7k@ltop.local>
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 4:36 PM Luc Van Oostenryck
<luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 07:22:46PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > The Compiler Attributes series is an effort to disentangle
> > the include/linux/compiler*.h headers and bring them up to date.
> >
> > The main idea behind the series is to use feature checking macros
> > (i.e. __has_attribute) instead of compiler version checks (e.g. GCC_VERSION),
> > which are compiler-agnostic (so they can be shared, reducing the size
> > of compiler-specific headers) and version-agnostic.
> >
> > Other related improvements have been performed in the headers as well,
> > which on top of the use of __has_attribute it has amounted to a significant
> > simplification of these headers (e.g. GCC_VERSION is now only guarding 4
> > non-attribute macros).
> >
> > This series should also help the efforts to support compiling the kernel
> > with clang and icc. A fair amount of documentation and comments have also
> > been added, clarified or removed; and the headers are now more readable,
> > which should help kernel developers in general.
> >
> > The series was triggered due to the move to gcc >= 4.6. In turn, this series
> > has also triggered Sparse to gain the ability to recognize __has_attribute
> > on its own.
> >
> > Finally, the nonstring variable attribute series has been applied on top
> > of this one.
>
> Hi Miguel,
> Feel free to add my
> Reviewed-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
> on patches 11-15 (I think the others ones already have it).
>
Done for both Nick and you!
Cheers,
Miguel
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-20 17:22 [PATCH v5 00/15] Compiler Attributes Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 17:22 ` [PATCH v5 01/15] Compiler Attributes: remove unused attributes Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 17:22 ` [PATCH v5 02/15] Compiler Attributes: always use the extra-underscores syntax Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 17:22 ` [PATCH v5 03/15] Compiler Attributes: remove unneeded tests Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 17:22 ` [PATCH v5 04/15] Compiler Attributes: homogenize __must_be_array Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 17:22 ` [PATCH v5 05/15] Compiler Attributes: remove unneeded sparse (__CHECKER__) tests Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 17:22 ` [PATCH v5 06/15] Compiler Attributes: add missing SPDX ID in compiler_types.h Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 17:22 ` [PATCH v5 07/15] Compiler Attributes: use feature checks instead of version checks Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 17:22 ` [PATCH v5 08/15] Compiler Attributes: KENTRY used twice the "used" attribute Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 17:22 ` [PATCH v5 09/15] Compiler Attributes: remove uses of __attribute__ from compiler.h Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 17:22 ` [PATCH v5 10/15] Compiler Attributes: add Doc/process/programming-language.rst Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 17:22 ` [PATCH v5 11/15] Compiler Attributes: add MAINTAINERS entry Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 17:22 ` [PATCH v5 12/15] Compiler Attributes: add support for __nonstring (gcc >= 8) Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 18:07 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-09-20 20:08 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-30 11:16 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 17:22 ` [PATCH v5 13/15] Compiler Attributes: enable -Wstringop-truncation on W=1 " Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 18:16 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-09-20 19:52 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-30 11:17 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 17:23 ` [PATCH v5 14/15] Compiler Attributes: auxdisplay: panel: use __nonstring Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 18:11 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-09-20 17:23 ` [PATCH v5 15/15] Compiler Attributes: ext4: remove local __nonstring definition Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-20 18:13 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-09-20 18:18 ` [PATCH v5 00/15] Compiler Attributes Nick Desaulniers
2018-09-24 14:36 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2018-09-30 11:13 ` Miguel Ojeda [this message]
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2018-10-06 19:41 ` Miguel Ojeda
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