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SubjectRe: rc4-mmotm1110 - Another build error
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:43:53 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:20:33 -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> > gcc --version says:
> > gcc (GCC) 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7)
> >
> > ka-blam number 2:
> >
> > CC kernel/audit.o
> > In file included from include/net/dst.h:15,
> > from include/net/sock.h:57,
> > from kernel/audit.c:54:
> > include/net/neighbour.h:114: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
> > make[1]: *** [kernel/audit.o] Error 1
> >
> > I'm placing bets on patches/align-avoid-evaluating-its-argument-twice.patch
> >
> > Yep, revert that patch, and audit.o compiles again.
> >
>
> I hadn't got around to testing that one yet.
>
> So ug. ALIGN() is used in array sizing and hence has to be a
> compile-time thing. But ALIGN(foo, bar()) will call bar() twice.
>
> Now how do we fix that?

How about provoding
- ALIGN() - args can be evaluated twice.
and
- static inline unsigned long align()

messy ?

Thanks,
-Kame





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