lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2019]   [Jul]   [7]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] Replaces long number representation by BIT() macro
Date
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 11:16:35AM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 01:19:34AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> > What we could do is switch to the `UL` macro from include/linux/const.h,
>> > rather than using our own ASM_CONST.
>>
>> You need gas 2.28 or later for that though.
>
> Oh, but apparently I cannot read. That macro should work fine.

:)

Yeah one day we'll be able to drop them entirely, but not yet.

The official minimum is 2.20:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/changes.html


But my "old" toolchain is binutils 2.22, so that's effectively the
minimum for anything I test. I'm not sure many people are actually
testing with 2.20.

cheers

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2019-07-07 15:16    [W:0.079 / U:0.900 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site