Re: [PATCH] Wipe out traditional opt from x86_64 Makefile

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On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:56:58AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:47:52AM -0300, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
>>> Among other things, using -traditional as a gcc option stops us from
>>> using macro token pasting, which is a feature we heavily rely on.
>>>
>>> There was still a use of -traditional in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile_64,
>>> which this patch removes.
>>>
>>> I don't see any problems building kernels in my x86_64 box without
>>> -traditional.
>>> ...
>> Does it also work with gcc 3.2 ?
>
> It wouldn't be a gcc version issue, it would be a binutils (ld) version 
> issue.

Sorry for the dumb question, but how does or did the gcc -traditional 
option affect ld?

> 	-hpa

cu
Adrian

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