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

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Wed May 12 09:16:35 AEST 2021


On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 11:30:17PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> >In any case, please mention the reasoning (and the fact that you are
> >removing these flags!) in the commit message.  Thanks!
> 
> but i did mention this, the last paragraph... they are duplicated.

Oh!  I completely missed those few lines.  Sorry for that :-(

To compensate a bit:

> 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 :-)


Segher


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