On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Oh I wish that were the case :(
> >
> > Thomas and I fought with the vdso build logic[1], and some other
> > arch-specific stuff for a good day trying to track down all of the
> > individual .h files that were getting pulled in by gcc to spit out a .S
> > file.
>
> Hmm. I thought we fixed those things long ago..
>
> Commit fe58fc8f4025 ("x86: wipe out traditional opt from x86_64
> Makefile") removed our use of -traditional back in 2008.
>
> But I do note that the PPC build still seems to have it.
>
> But yeah, maybe there is something else odd about *.S files still.
The wreckage is with the *.lds.S ones which are used to generate .lds with
some gcc preprocessor magic. And then ld falls flat on its nose with the //
comment.
Thanks,
tglx
