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Commit d0ee23f9 authored by Nathan Chancellor's avatar Nathan Chancellor Committed by Linus Torvalds
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tools: compiler-gcc.h: Guard error attribute use with __has_attribute

When building objtool with HOSTCC=clang, there are several errors along
the lines of

  orc_dump.c:201:28: error: unknown attribute 'error' ignored [-Werror,-Wunknown-attributes]

This occurs after commit 4e59869a ("compiler-gcc.h: drop checks for
older GCC versions"), which removed the GCC_VERSION gating.  The removed
version check just so happened to prevent __compiletime_error() from
being defined with clang because it pretends to be GCC 4.2.1 for
compatibility but the error attribute was not added to clang until
14.0.0.

Commit 815f0ddb ("include/linux/compiler*.h: make compiler-*.h
mutually exclusive") and commit a3f8a30f ("Compiler Attributes: use
feature checks instead of version checks") refactored the handling of
attributes in the main kernel to avoid situations like this but that
refactoring has never been done for the tools directory.

Refactoring is a rather large undertaking and this has never been an
issue before so instead, just guard the definition of
__compiletime_error() with __has_attribute() so that there are no more
errors.

Fixes: 4e59869a

 ("compiler-gcc.h: drop checks for older GCC versions")
Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 31634624
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