[PATCH 06/12] revert "x86: Also pass -P to $(CPP) when processing i386-opc.tbl"

Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com
Tue Aug 9 07:22:44 GMT 2022


On 06.08.2022 01:17, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 5:23 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>
>> This reverts commit 384f368958f2a5bb083660e58e5f8a010e6ad429, which
>> broke i386-gen's emitting of diagnostics. As a replacement to address
>> the original issue of newer gcc no longer splicing lines when dropping
>> the line continuation backslashes, switch to using + as the line
>> continuation character, doing the line splicing in i386-gen.
>> ---
>> Alternatives to using + that I see are &, \+, or \&. To me a single
> 
> Will \\ work?

No - that's what I had in mind originally (and I may have even mentioned
it), but the same difference in treatment of the trailing backslash
between gcc versions gets in the way there.

Jan


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