[patch V2a 2/6] kbuild: Disable CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT on clang < version 17

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hoi Peter,

On Mon, 29 Sept 2025 at 13:04, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 12:58:14PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Sept 2025 at 12:09, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 11:38:17AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > >
> > > > > +       # Detect buggy clang, fixed in clang-17
> > > > > +       depends on $(success,echo 'void b(void **);void* c();int f(void){{asm goto("jmp %l0"::::l0);return 0;l0:return 1;}void *x __attribute__((cleanup(b))) = c();{asm goto("jmp %l0"::::l1);return 2;l1:return 1;}}' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
> > > >
> > > > This is supposed to affect only clang builds, right?  I am using
> > > > gcc version 13.3.0 (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) to build for
> > > > arm32/arm64/riscv, and thus have:
> > > >
> > > >     CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC=y
> > > >
> > > > Still, this commit causes
> > > >
> > > >     CONFIG_CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT=y
> > > >     CONFIG_CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT=y
> > > >
> > > > to disappear from my configs? Is that expected?
> > >
> > > Not expected -- that means your GCC is somehow failing that test case.
> > > Ideally some GCC person will investigate why this is so.
> >
> > Oh, "jmp" is not a valid mnemonic on arm and riscv, and several other
> > architectures...
>
> Ah, d'0h indeed.
>
> void b(void **);void* c();int f(void){{asm goto(""::::l0);return 0;l0:return 1;}void *x __attribute__((cleanup(b))) = c();{asm goto(""::::l1);return 2;l1:return 1;}}
>
> Seems to still finger the issue on x86_64. That should build on !x86
> too, right?

Thanks, builds fine on arm32, arm64, riscv, m68k, powerpc, mips, s390.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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