lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2008]   [Apr]   [28]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] fs/buffer.c:init_buffer() mustn't be inline


On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > Can somebody tell why this is not a gcc bug?
>
> It is a gcc bug.
>
> But having a global function marked as extern was already questionable,
> and all assumptions an "inline" would always inline the code are anyway
> now broken in your tree.
>
> So let's work around a gcc bug by fixing the kernel...

But when doing this, MARK IT LOUDLY AS A GCC BUG!

The thing is, reading that log message, it was not at all clear why that
change was made. Please make it clear why, rather than quoting a totally
useless error message that doesn't actually tell what is going on.

I agree that having work-arounds for compiler bugs is worth it (assuming
the version is common enough to worry about), but I also don't want to
have unexplained commits doing something that on the face of it is just
odd

Put another way: looking at the actual diff and looking at the commit
message, the only sane reaction from somebody who knows the code is:
"Whaa? WTF?". Saying "This is a gcc bug" would have turned that "WTF?"
into a "Oh, ok then".

Linus


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2008-04-28 19:03    [W:0.084 / U:0.080 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site