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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] Makefile.extrawarn: limit -Wnested-externs to clang
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 06:48:46PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:03:14PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >
> > The -Wnested-externs warning has become useless with gcc, since
> > this warns every time that BUILD_BUG_ON() or similar macros
> > are used.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> Also see:
>
> 2486baae2cf6 ("objtool: Allow nested externs to enable BUILD_BUG()")
> 6cf4ecf5c51d ("perf build: Allow nested externs to enable BUILD_BUG() usage")
>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>

Actually, just delete this line altogether. -Wnested-externs is a GCC
only warning, the flag is only present in clang for compatibility with
GCC:

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html#wnested-externs

With that, my reviewed by still stands.

Cheers,
Nathan

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