Thomas Huth
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In the very early kernel 1.x days, assembler files were pre-processed with the "-traditional" flag. With kernel 1.1.85, the sparc subsystem was changed to use "-ansi" instead while the other parts of the kernel continued to use "-traditional". That "-traditional" got removed from the other architectures in the course of time, but the sparc part kept the "-ansi" until today. This is bad since it comes with some disadvantages nowadays: You have to make sure to not include any header that contains a "//" C++ comment by accident (there are now some in the tree that use these for SPDX identifiers for example), and with "-ansi" we also do not get the pre-defined __ASSEMBLER__ macro which we'd like to use instead of the kernel-only __ASSEMBLY__ macro in the future. Since there does not seem to be any compelling reason anymore to use "-ansi" nowadays, let's simply drop the "-ansi" flag from the sparc subsystem now to get rid of those disadvantages. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Tested-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.