Messages in this thread | | | From | Arvind Sankar <> | Date | Thu, 6 Feb 2020 18:33:26 -0500 | Subject | Re: Error building v5.5-git on PowerPC32 - bisected to commit 7befe621ff81 |
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 06:12:13PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 04:46:52PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > > When building post V5.5 on my PowerBook G4 Aluminum, the build failed with the > > following error: > > It's not that the attributes are wrong. The problem is that BUILD_BUG_ON > requires a compile-time evaluatable condition. gcc-4.6 is apparently not > good enough at optimizing to reduce that expression to a constant, > though it was able to do it with the array accesses.
Should have noted, it fails on x86 too with gcc-4.6.4, not specific to PPC.
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