That's not a justification for change. Claiming no harm is nevessary but not sufficient.
On October 12, 2014 9:53:32 AM PDT, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.l...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:47:53 -0700 >"H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> wrote: > >[replying to the list this time, sigh] > >> We changed this to asm because the C broke some compilers. Why are >you changing it back? >> > >The C broke some compilers because it was using a global register >variable. This is a local one, which the clang documentation says is >supported. And I compiled it with clang with no problem. > >> On October 12, 2014 9:43:53 AM PDT, Chuck Ebbert ><cebbert.l...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >Use C instead of asm for accessing the stack pointer. And define >some >> >macros to make the code easier to understand. >> > -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please pardon brevity and lack of formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/