Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 4 authors, 2021-05-14

Re: [PATCH kernel v2] powerpc/makefile: Do not redefine $(CPP) for preprocessor

From: Segher Boessenkool <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-12 10:33:07
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On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 01:48:53PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
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Oh!  I completely missed those few lines.  Sorry for that :-(
Well, I probably should have made it a separate patch anyway, I'll 
repost separately.
Thanks.
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To compensate a bit:
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It still puzzles me why we need -C
(preserve comments in the preprocessor output) flag here.
It is so that a human can look at the output and read it.  Comments are
very significant to human readers :-)
I seriously doubt anyone ever read those :)
I am pretty sure whoever wrote it did!
I suspect this is to pull 
all the licenses in one place and do some checking but I did not dig deep.
I don't see the point in that, but :-)


Segher
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