Re: [patch] __func__ -> __FUNCTION__

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:17:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> It is a requirement of the SPARC port that Linux be compilable
> by egcs-1.1.2, aka gcc-2.91.66.
> 
> That compiler does not support __func__.

Is there any reason to not use __FUNCTION__?  According to the gcc folks
that there is no plan to retire it, and as long as all known-good kernel
compilers support it a gccism is a lot better than a standard feature that
is not supported by most of the kernel compilers.