Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:52:43 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH for 3.12] mutex: Avoid gcc version dependent __builtin_constant_p() usage. |
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 07:45:29PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Commit 040a0a37 "mutex: Add support for wound/wait style locks" used > "!__builtin_constant_p(p == NULL)" but gcc 3.x cannot handle such expression > correctly, leading to boot failure when built with CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y.
So I completely forgot all about this, but wouldn't something like:
!(__builtin_constant_p(p) && p == NULL)
Not also work and generate the same code?
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