[PATCH] remove gcc-2 checks

Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers.

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

    Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2.

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

9 files changed, 11 insertions, 34 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c
index 04d3082a7b94..0abbce8c70bc 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c
@@ -23,20 +23,15 @@
 #error Sorry, your compiler targets APCS-26 but this kernel requires APCS-32
 #endif
 /*
- * GCC 2.95.1, 2.95.2: ignores register clobber list in asm().
  * GCC 3.0, 3.1: general bad code generation.
  * GCC 3.2.0: incorrect function argument offset calculation.
  * GCC 3.2.x: miscompiles NEW_AUX_ENT in fs/binfmt_elf.c
  *            (http://gcc.gnu.org/PR8896) and incorrect structure
  *            initialisation in fs/jffs2/erase.c
  */
-#if __GNUC__ < 2 || \
-   (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 95) || \
-   (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ == 95 && __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ != 0 && \
-                                             __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ < 3) || \
-   (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 3)
+#if (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 3)
 #error Your compiler is too buggy; it is known to miscompile kernels.
-#error    Known good compilers: 2.95.3, 2.95.4, 2.96, 3.3
+#error    Known good compilers: 3.3
 #endif
 
 /* Use marker if you need to separate the values later */
diff --git a/arch/arm26/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/arm26/kernel/asm-offsets.c
index 4ccacaef94df..ac682d5fd039 100644
--- a/arch/arm26/kernel/asm-offsets.c
+++ b/arch/arm26/kernel/asm-offsets.c
@@ -25,13 +25,6 @@
 #if defined(__APCS_32__) && defined(CONFIG_CPU_26)
 #error Sorry, your compiler targets APCS-32 but this kernel requires APCS-26
 #endif
-#if __GNUC__ < 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 95)
-#error Sorry, your compiler is known to miscompile kernels.  Only use gcc 2.95.3 and later.
-#endif
-#if __GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ == 95
-/* shame we can't detect the .1 or .2 releases */
-#warning GCC 2.95.2 and earlier miscompiles kernels.
-#endif
 
 /* Use marker if you need to separate the values later */
 
diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
index 968fabd8723f..486449e9e710 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -630,10 +630,6 @@ config REGPARM
         and passes the first three arguments of a function call in registers.
         This will probably break binary only modules.
 
-        This feature is only enabled for gcc-3.0 and later - earlier compilers
-        generate incorrect output with certain kernel constructs when
-        -mregparm=3 is used.
-
 config SECCOMP
         bool "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
         depends on PROC_FS
diff --git a/arch/i386/Makefile b/arch/i386/Makefile
index d121ea18460f..b84119f9cc63 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Makefile
+++ b/arch/i386/Makefile
@@ -37,10 +37,7 @@ CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2)
 # CPU-specific tuning. Anything which can be shared with UML should go here.
 include $(srctree)/arch/i386/Makefile.cpu
 
-# -mregparm=3 works ok on gcc-3.0 and later
-#
-GCC_VERSION                     := $(call cc-version)
-cflags-$(CONFIG_REGPARM)        += $(shell if [ $(GCC_VERSION) -ge 0300 ] ; then echo "-mregparm=3"; fi ;)
+cflags-$(CONFIG_REGPARM)        += -mregparm=3
 
 # Disable unit-at-a-time mode, it makes gcc use a lot more stack
 # due to the lack of sharing of stacklots.
diff --git a/arch/i386/Makefile.cpu b/arch/i386/Makefile.cpu
index 8e51456df23d..dcd936ef45db 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Makefile.cpu
+++ b/arch/i386/Makefile.cpu
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # CPU tuning section - shared with UML.
 # Must change only cflags-y (or [yn]), not CFLAGS! That makes a difference for UML.
 
-#-mtune exists since gcc 3.4, and some -mcpu flavors didn't exist in gcc 2.95.
+#-mtune exists since gcc 3.4
 HAS_MTUNE       := $(call cc-option-yn, -mtune=i386)
 ifeq ($(HAS_MTUNE),y)
 tune            = $(call cc-option,-mtune=$(1),)
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ cflags-$(CONFIG_M386)		+= -march=i386
 cflags-$(CONFIG_M486)           += -march=i486
 cflags-$(CONFIG_M586)           += -march=i586
 cflags-$(CONFIG_M586TSC)        += -march=i586
-cflags-$(CONFIG_M586MMX)        += $(call cc-option,-march=pentium-mmx,-march=i586)
+cflags-$(CONFIG_M586MMX)        += -march=pentium-mmx
 cflags-$(CONFIG_M686)           += -march=i686
 cflags-$(CONFIG_MPENTIUMII)     += -march=i686 $(call tune,pentium2)
 cflags-$(CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII)    += -march=i686 $(call tune,pentium3)
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ cflags-$(CONFIG_MPENTIUM4)	+= -march=i686 $(call tune,pentium4)
 cflags-$(CONFIG_MK6)            += -march=k6
 # Please note, that patches that add -march=athlon-xp and friends are pointless.
 # They make zero difference whatsosever to performance at this time.
-cflags-$(CONFIG_MK7)            += $(call cc-option,-march=athlon,-march=i686 $(align)-functions=4)
-cflags-$(CONFIG_MK8)            += $(call cc-option,-march=k8,$(call cc-option,-march=athlon,-march=i686 $(align)-functions=4))
+cflags-$(CONFIG_MK7)            += -march=athlon
+cflags-$(CONFIG_MK8)            += $(call cc-option,-march=k8,-march=athlon)
 cflags-$(CONFIG_MCRUSOE)        += -march=i686 $(align)-functions=0 $(align)-jumps=0 $(align)-loops=0
 cflags-$(CONFIG_MEFFICEON)      += -march=i686 $(call tune,pentium3) $(align)-functions=0 $(align)-jumps=0 $(align)-loops=0
 cflags-$(CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6)     += $(call cc-option,-march=winchip-c6,-march=i586)
@@ -37,5 +37,5 @@ cflags-$(CONFIG_MVIAC3_2)	+= $(call cc-option,-march=c3-2,-march=i686)
 cflags-$(CONFIG_X86_ELAN)       += -march=i486
 
 # Geode GX1 support
-cflags-$(CONFIG_MGEODEGX1)              += $(call cc-option,-march=pentium-mmx,-march=i486)
+cflags-$(CONFIG_MGEODEGX1)      += -march=pentium-mmx
 
diff --git a/arch/ia64/Makefile b/arch/ia64/Makefile
index 67932ad53082..57b047c27e46 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/Makefile
+++ b/arch/ia64/Makefile
@@ -37,10 +37,6 @@ $(error Sorry, you need a newer version of the assember, one that is built from
                 ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/gas-030124.tar.gz)
 endif
 
-ifneq ($(shell if [ $(GCC_VERSION) -lt 0300 ] ; then echo "bad"; fi ;),)
-$(error Sorry, your compiler is too old.  GCC v2.96 is known to generate bad code.)
-endif
-
 ifeq ($(GCC_VERSION),0304)
         cflags-$(CONFIG_ITANIUM)        += -mtune=merced
         cflags-$(CONFIG_MCKINLEY)       += -mtune=mckinley
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/head.S b/arch/ia64/kernel/head.S
index bfe65b2e8621..fbc7ea35dd57 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/head.S
@@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@ SET_REG(b5);
          * the clobber lists for spin_lock() in include/asm-ia64/spinlock.h.
          */
 
-#if __GNUC__ < 3 || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 3)
+#if (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 3)
 
 GLOBAL_ENTRY(ia64_spinlock_contention_pre3_4)
         .prologue
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.c
index 5db9d3bcbbcb..e72de580ebbf 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unw_init_running);
 
 #ifdef ASM_SUPPORTED
 # ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-#  if __GNUC__ < 3 || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 3)
+#  if (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 3)
 /*
  * This is not a normal routine and we don't want a function descriptor for it, so we use
  * a fake declaration here.
diff --git a/arch/ia64/oprofile/backtrace.c b/arch/ia64/oprofile/backtrace.c
index b7dabbfb0d61..adb01566bd57 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/oprofile/backtrace.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/oprofile/backtrace.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ typedef struct
         u64 *prev_pfs_loc;      /* state for WAR for old spinlock ool code */
 } ia64_backtrace_t;
 
-#if __GNUC__ < 3 || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 3)
+#if (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 3)
 /*
  * Returns non-zero if the PC is in the spinlock contention out-of-line code
  * with non-standard calling sequence (on older compilers).