Re: [PATCH][RFC] PentiumPro/II split in x86 config

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:24:14PM +1000, Keith Owens escreveu:
> On Mon, 27 May 2002 23:16:47 -0300, 
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >Em Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:05:54PM +1000, Keith Owens escreveu:
> >> Better still, use the C language standard:
> >> 
> >> 		.vendor = X86_VENDOR_INTEL,
> >
> >oops, gcc accepts that, good to know that this is standard C, but for the
> >kernel, I think that this doesn't matter as gcc is the only compiler that
> >understands the GCC Language 8) Or am I wrong? I'd love to be... 8)
> 
> The kernel can only be compiled with gcc, but some bits of the build
> are compiled and run on the host, using the host compiler.  Avoid using
> gccisms where there is a standard way of doing it.

I see, I was not thinking about those bits of the build, only kernel code, where
there are plenty of other gccisms.

/me will take a look at the latest C standard... :-)

- Arnaldo