Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 May 2021 05:26:40 -0500 | From | Segher Boessenkool <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH kernel v2] powerpc/makefile: Do not redefine $(CPP) for preprocessor |
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On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 01:48:53PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > >Oh! I completely missed those few lines. Sorry for that :-( > > Well, I probably should have made it a separate patch anyway, I'll > repost separately.
Thanks.
> >To compensate a bit: > > > >>It still puzzles me why we need -C > >>(preserve comments in the preprocessor output) flag here. > > > >It is so that a human can look at the output and read it. Comments are > >very significant to human readers :-) > > I seriously doubt anyone ever read those :)
I am pretty sure whoever wrote it did!
> I suspect this is to pull > all the licenses in one place and do some checking but I did not dig deep.
I don't see the point in that, but :-)
Segher
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