Re: [patch] __func__ -> __FUNCTION__

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:20:43 +0100

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:17:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> It is a requirement of the SPARC port that Linux be compilable
> by egcs-1.1.2, aka gcc-2.91.66.
>
> That compiler does not support __func__.

Is there any reason to not use __FUNCTION__? According to the gcc folks
that there is no plan to retire it, and as long as all known-good kernel
compilers support it a gccism is a lot better than a standard feature that
is not supported by most of the kernel compilers.

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