2018-02-20 0:18 GMT+09:00 Ulf Magnusson [off-list ref]:

quoted

I'm not happy that we in one context can reference CONFIG variables
directly, but inside the $(call ...) and $(shell ...) needs the $ prefix.
But I could not come up with something un-ambigious where this could be avoided.

I think we should be careful about allowing references to config
symbols. It mixes up the parsing and evaluation phases, since $() is
expanded during parsing (which I consider a feature and think is
needed to retain sanity).

Patch 06/23 removes the last existing instance of symbol references in
strings by getting rid of 'option env'. That's an improvement to me.
We shouldn't add it back.

This is really important design decision,
so I'd like to hear a little more from experts.


For example, x86 allows users to choose sub-arch, either 'i386' or 'x86_64'.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v4.16-rc2/arch/x86/Kconfig#L4



If the user toggles CONFIG_64BIT,
the bi-arch compiler will work in a slightly different mode
(at least, back-end parts)

So, my question is, is there a case,

$(cc-option, -m32 -foo) is y, but
$(cc-option, -m64 -foo) is n  ?
(or vice versa)


If the answer is yes, $(cc-option -foo) would have to be re-calculated
every time CONFIG_64BIT is toggled.

This is what I'd like to avoid, though.



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Masahiro Yamada