Commit-ID: 39e7317e37f7f0be366d1201c283f968c17268da Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/39e7317e37f7f0be366d1201c283f968c17268da Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> AuthorDate: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 15:34:30 -0300 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> CommitDate: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 09:04:54 -0300
perf build: Do not use -Wshadow on gcc < 4.8 As it is too strict, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/28/253 and https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html, that takes into account Linus's comments (search for Wshadow) for the reasoning about -Wshadow not being interesting before gcc 4.8. Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakry...@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190719183417.gq3...@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> --- tools/scripts/Makefile.include | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include index 495066bafbe3..ded7a950dc40 100644 --- a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include +++ b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include @@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wno-system-headers EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wold-style-definition EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wpacked EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wredundant-decls -EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wshadow EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wstrict-prototypes EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wswitch-default EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wswitch-enum @@ -69,8 +68,16 @@ endif # will do for now and keep the above -Wstrict-aliasing=3 in place # in newer systems. # Needed for the __raw_cmpxchg in tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h +# +# See https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/28/253 and https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html, +# that takes into account Linus's comments (search for Wshadow) for the reasoning about +# -Wshadow not being interesting before gcc 4.8. + ifneq ($(filter 3.%,$(MAKE_VERSION)),) # make-3 EXTRA_WARNINGS += -fno-strict-aliasing +EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wno-shadow +else +EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wshadow endif ifneq ($(findstring $(MAKEFLAGS), w),w)
