This is an effort to disentangle the include/linux/compiler*.h headers
and bring them up to date.
The main idea behind the series is to use feature checking macros
(i.e. __has_attribute) instead of compiler version checks (e.g. GCC_VERSION),
which are compiler-agnostic (so they can be shared, reducing the size
of compiler-specific headers) and version-agnostic.
Other related improvements have been performed in the headers as well,
which on top of the use of __has_attribute it has amounted to a significant
simplification of these headers (e.g. GCC_VERSION is now only guarding
a few non-attribute macros).
This series should also help the efforts to support compiling the kernel
with clang and icc. A fair amount of documentation and comments have also
been added, clarified or removed; and the headers are now more readable,
which should help kernel developers in general.
The series was triggered due to the move to gcc >= 4.6. In turn, this series
has also triggered Sparse to gain the ability to recognize __has_attribute
on its own.
Finally, the __nonstring variable attribute series has been also applied
on top; plus two related patches from Nick Desaulniers for unreachable()
that came a bit afterwards.
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Merge tag 'compiler-attributes-for-linus-4.20-rc1' of https://github.com/ojeda/linux
Pull compiler attribute updates from Miguel Ojeda:
"This is an effort to disentangle the include/linux/compiler*.h headers
and bring them up to date.
The main idea behind the series is to use feature checking macros
(i.e. __has_attribute) instead of compiler version checks (e.g.
GCC_VERSION), which are compiler-agnostic (so they can be shared,
reducing the size of compiler-specific headers) and version-agnostic.
Other related improvements have been performed in the headers as well,
which on top of the use of __has_attribute it has amounted to a
significant simplification of these headers (e.g. GCC_VERSION is now
only guarding a few non-attribute macros).
This series should also help the efforts to support compiling the
kernel with clang and icc. A fair amount of documentation and comments
have also been added, clarified or removed; and the headers are now
more readable, which should help kernel developers in general.
The series was triggered due to the move to gcc >= 4.6. In turn, this
series has also triggered Sparse to gain the ability to recognize
__has_attribute on its own.
Finally, the __nonstring variable attribute series has been also
applied on top; plus two related patches from Nick Desaulniers for
unreachable() that came a bit afterwards"
* tag 'compiler-attributes-for-linus-4.20-rc1' of https://github.com/ojeda/linux:
compiler-gcc: remove comment about gcc 4.5 from unreachable()
compiler.h: update definition of unreachable()
Compiler Attributes: ext4: remove local __nonstring definition
Compiler Attributes: auxdisplay: panel: use __nonstring
Compiler Attributes: enable -Wstringop-truncation on W=1 (gcc >= 8)
Compiler Attributes: add support for __nonstring (gcc >= 8)
Compiler Attributes: add MAINTAINERS entry
Compiler Attributes: add Doc/process/programming-language.rst
Compiler Attributes: remove uses of __attribute__ from compiler.h
Compiler Attributes: KENTRY used twice the "used" attribute
Compiler Attributes: use feature checks instead of version checks
Compiler Attributes: add missing SPDX ID in compiler_types.h
Compiler Attributes: remove unneeded sparse (__CHECKER__) tests
Compiler Attributes: homogenize __must_be_array
Compiler Attributes: remove unneeded tests
Compiler Attributes: always use the extra-underscores syntax
Compiler Attributes: remove unused attributes
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